Kourosh Ataei has been a Director in some movies:
From Iran is about that In the morning of 27 March 2012, the Iranian movie 'A Separation' won the Oscar Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. For the Iranian people who were impatiently glued to their TV screens, this was more than a cinematic award. When sanctions and threats of war with Iran covered the world headlines, Asghar Farhadi talked about Iran's love for peace and the rich culture of the Iranians when he went on the stage to receiv
...e his award. This time the Iranians felt that their voice was heard through someone other than the government officials. This documentary depicts the importance and the difference of receiving an Oscar award for 'A Separation' for the Iranians and has a general view on Iran's society of today. The documentary is narrated with an ironic language and uses animation in some parts. In this film Kourosh Ataei collaborates with Leila Hatami, Shahab Hosseini, Payman Maadi, Hayedeh Safiyari, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Azadeh Mousavi, Katayoon Shahabi, Mostafa Dehghanian, Majid Yazdani, Sareh Bayat.
Finding Farideh is about that "Finding Farideh" is a feature-length documentary about an Iranian girl named Farideh, who had been abandoned in a holy shrine in Iran when she was 6 months old in 1976 and then she was transferred to Tehran's nursery. A few days later, she got adopted by a Dutch couple and left Iran to the Netherlands to start her new life. Her parents promised to take her to Iran when she turns 18, but it never happened because they always thought that Iran is a dangerous country to go Now, she overcomes her fears and starts a personal journey to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her real family and have a DNA test with them, and to find out about her Iranian identity and culture. In this film Kourosh Ataei collaborates with Mohammad Haddadi, Azadeh Mousavi, Afshin Azizi, Hamid Najafirad, Ensieh Maleki.
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