Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mania Akbari is an Iranian film director. Akbari began her artistic career as a painter in 1991. She entered the world of cinema as a director of photography and later as an assistant director of documentaries. In 2002, she starred in Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten and in 2003 co-directed the documentary Crystal. In 2005 she wrote, directed and starred in her first feature film, 20 Fingers, winner of a prize at the Venice Film Festival digital film competition. In...
Known For
Complete Filmography
How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish
2022
Producer, Director, Writer
Prominent filmmaker, artist and actress Mania Akbari reclaims her body—and that of all the other women in Iranian film. Using almost a hundred excerpt...
Dear Elnaz
2020
Editor, Director
Like a trauma therapist, the camera accompanies Javad Soleimani whose wife, Elnaz Nabiyi, was killed aboard flight PS752 after missile attacks by the ...
A Moon for My Father
2019
as Herself
Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of langauge, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigate...
A Moon for My Father
2019
Director, Writer
Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of langauge, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigate...
Life May Be
2014
as Self
An epistolary feature film: a cinematic discourse between a British director Mark Cousins, and an Iranian actress and director Mania Akbari which exte...
Life May Be
2014
Director, Writer
An epistolary feature film: a cinematic discourse between a British director Mark Cousins, and an Iranian actress and director Mania Akbari which exte...
From Tehran to London
2013
as Roya
Mania Akbari’s From Tehran to London (2012), has a Russian-doll structure. It begins with Akbari shooting her latest film entitled Women Do Not Have B...
From Tehran to London
2013
Director, Producer
Mania Akbari’s From Tehran to London (2012), has a Russian-doll structure. It begins with Akbari shooting her latest film entitled Women Do Not Have B...
Dancing Mania
2012
as Self
A short documentary on the latest film by Mania Akbari titled, From Tehran to London. The film takes a closer look at Akbari’s latest boundary-pushing...
In My Country Men Have Breasts
2012
as self
Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After she directed, wrote and acted 10+4 which showed her ...
In My Country Men Have Breasts
2012
Director
Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After she directed, wrote and acted 10+4 which showed her ...
One. Two. One
2011
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
In a society where all social customs are based on the beauty of a woman, her challenge is to find self confidence and inner beauty despite having los...
10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar)
2007
as herself
After casting painter and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his groundbreaking Ten (2002), and then witnessing her outstanding debut ...
10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar)
2007
Director
After casting painter and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his groundbreaking Ten (2002), and then witnessing her outstanding debut ...
Cinema Iran
2005
as Self
Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.
20 Fingers
2004
as The Wife
The subject of the film is male-female relationships. Composed of 7 vignettes, "20 Fingers" features Mania Akbari and Bijan Daneshmand as a contempora...
20 Fingers
2004
Director, Writer
The subject of the film is male-female relationships. Composed of 7 vignettes, "20 Fingers" features Mania Akbari and Bijan Daneshmand as a contempora...
Ten
2002
as Driver
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.