Manijeh Hekmat ( منیژه حکمت ) was born in 1962 in Farmahin, Iran. She has worked since 1980 as an assistant director and production designer in over 25 films. She directed her first feature film "Women's Prison" (ZendaManijeh Hekmat has been a Producer in some movies:
No Men Allowed is about that In order to prepare her best and brightest for the upcoming chemistry Olympiad, strict, conservative headmistress Ms. Darabi is forced to break her lifelong rule of not allowing male teachers in the sch
...ool and reluctantly hires the bumbling Mr. Jebeli. Little does she know though that several of her students, led by the self-assured Paria, have a plan to get her to fall in love with him. 'No Men Allowed' is a hilarious, rollicking romcom, chock-full of witty dialogue and zany antics that will have you coming back time and time again! In this film Manijeh Hekmat collaborates with Bahareh Rahnama, Falamak Joneidi, Pegah Ahangarani, Reza Attaran, Rambod Javan, Vishka Asayesh, Mani Haghighi, Ali Sadeghi, Ali Sartipi, Parviz Abnar, Davood Amiri, Mostafa Kherghehpoosh, Peyman Ghasemkhani, Atoosa Ghalamfarsaei, Zohreh Hamidi, Parinaz Izadyar, Katayoun Amir Ebrahimi, Setareh Pesiani, Heydar Sajedi, Hadis Miramini, Fatemeh Kamali, Siavash Cheraghipour, Mehrdad Amini, Behrang Tofighi, Mehrnaz Bayat.
There Are Things You Don't Know is about that Late-shift taxi driver Ali works the mean streets of Tehran and in the process he meets an eclectic variety of people. Most notable is the lonely Leila whom he has to collect every night. With rumors of an upcoming earthquake spreading, the normally taciturn Ali slowly breaks his silence in Leila's presence. Behind banal conversations full of unfinished sentences, the protagonists’ pasts betray deep traumas which have deflected them from their original paths in life. With a nod to Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), debut director Fardin Saheb Zamani’s weaves together a melancholy, disquieting drama about alienation and identity. In this film Manijeh Hekmat collaborates with Leila Hatami, Mahtab Keramati, Ali Mosaffa, Payam Yazdani, Fardin Saheb Zamani, Houman Behmanesh, Siamak Adib, Ahmad Ardalan, Kamyab Amin Ashayeri, Vahab Yahyazadeh, Fatemeh Kamali, Mehdi Bajestani, Hessam Noorani, Maryam Kazemi, Amirali Vajedsamiei.
Manijeh Hekmat has been a Director in some movies:
Women's Prison is about that Manijeh Hekmat's controversial film won awards at the Rotterdam and Fribourg film festivals. It tells the harrowing story of Mitra and Mrs Yousefi, two contrasting women on opposite sides of the prison system, during a two decade period starting in 1979. While prisoner Mitra and warden Mrs Yousefi start out feuding, the harsh conditions of the prison and the traumatic events which occur there eventually become larger than their rivalry, drawing them towards an unspoken friendship. A powerful drama with an extremely poignant ending. In this film Manijeh Hekmat collaborates with Golab Adineh, Pegah Ahangarani, Roya Nonahali, Roya Teymourian, Maryam Boubani, Ebrahim Sheibani, Sirus Taslimi, Farid Mostafavi, Dariush Ayari, Mostafa Kherghehpoosh, Mehri Shirazi, Mahmoud Samakbashi, Jamshid Ahangarani Farahani, Amir Abedi, Farkhondeh Farmanizadeh, Keyvan Jahanshahi.
Gap is about that Thirty-year-olds, Sarah and Peyman must quickly decide on parenthood as Sarah is suffering from a rare disease which might soon render her infertile. Her gynecologist advises her to have a child before it is too late. However, becoming a parent is no easy matter, especially when the question is further complicated by the breakup of a couple of close friends whose son is torn between his parents. In this film Manijeh Hekmat collaborates with Hanieh Tavassoli, Parsa Pirouzfar, Sahar Dolatshahi, Babak Hamidian, Ali Sartipi, Fardin Khalatbari, Abbas Abbasi, Babak Ardalan, Alireza Alavian, Majid Gorjian, Ehsan Amani, Toofan Mehrdadian, Amirkian Najafzadeh, Kiarash Asadizadeh, Shahrokh Kafi, Melody Esmaeili, Morteza Agha Hosseini, Maryam Takhtkeshian.
Hangover is about that A young musician is preparing himself for an annual exam held by the Embassy of Austria. If approved, he will be selected to continue his career in Austria. He tries his best to pass the exam; however, on the decisive day, an incident occurs. He gets so involved that he completely forgets about his exam. In this film Manijeh Hekmat collaborates with Mehrdad Sedighian, Omid Roohani, Lili Farhadpour, Morteza Poursamadi, Farhad Tohidi, Saeed Malekan, Amir Adibparvar, Bahram Dehghanyar, Sogol Khaligh, Kazem Sayyahi, Dariush Ghazabani, Sahar Shahamat, Maryam Majd.
The Old Road is about that Minoo, a 47-year-old bank manager, takes a private cab when she can’t find a licensed one on New Year’s Eve. The driver takes her outside the city limits and assaults her. When her husband Bahram picks her up from a police station, she is heavily bruised and hurt. Bahram and his family assume it was just a robbery. Soon, the driver is arrested and confesses to raping her. Minoo, however, insists it did not happen. Her friends and family try hard to make her come to terms with what has happened. Minoo has a nervous breakdown… In this film Manijeh Hekmat collaborates with Atila Pesyani, Mahtab Keramati, Mohammadreza Hedayati, Mohammad Reza Ghaffari, Behnaz Jafari, Leili Rashidi, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Christophe Rezai, Saeed Malekan, Dariush Ayari, Mostafa Kherghehpoosh, Tarlan Parvaneh, Pouria Rahimi Sam, Parviz Pour Hosseini, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Keyvan Moghaddam, Mehdi Ebrahimzadeh, Mohammad Mosavinejad, Banipal Shoomoon, Nazanin Tavasoli.
Poopak and Mash Mashallah is about that Poupak has returned to Iran recently. Her aunt, Ehteramsadat, is hospitalized due to her illness. She tells her steward, Mash-Mashalla who is an inflexible man to take care of her niece. In this film Manijeh Hekmat collaborates with Amin Hayaei, Bahareh Rahnama, Mahnaz Afshar, Sorush Sehhat, Farhad Aeesh, Parviz Abnar, Farzad Motamen, Davood Amiri, Faramarz Hootham, Maryam Amir Jalali, Parvin Meykadeh, Rabe'e Oskouei, Fatemeh Kamali, Marjan Shokoofaki, Sahar Shahamat, Mehrdad Amini, Heidar Sajedi, Iman Safaei.
Other films are:
Three Women, City of Mice 2, Voices, Chivalric, Raid, Grasshopper, Bandar Band, Negative Corona, Nineteen, Grand Cinema, Apartment No. 13
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