Golshifteh Farahani
Date of Birth: 10 Jul 1983
Country: Iran
Biography: Golshifteh started her acting career in theater at the age of 6 and has always kept a strong link with theater, but it was at the age of 14 that she acted in her first film The Pear Tree (1998), for which she won the prize for the Best Actress from the international section of the Fajr film festival, immediately making her one of the stars of Iranian cinema. Since then she has played in more than 15 films, many of which have been screened or awarded at international festivals. Amongst her latest
Total Credits at Criticker: 44 (Actor)
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A girl named Etti meets a window-shop decorator, and this acquaintance entails a series of adventures. (IR Films)
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Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon... (imdb)
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A former journalist injured in the Iraq war is hired by the CIA to track down an Al Qaeda leader in Jordan. Based on the novel "Body of Lies" by David Ignatius
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After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day. (imdb)
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A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show. (Venice Film Festival)
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Three families go on a short vacation together to the sea, and bring with them a divorced male friend recently returned from Germany and the teacher of one of their children, with hopes they will form a match.
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A writer reflects on his youth and his first love, a older girl he knows only as M. He was infatuated with her at the time, though she wanted just to be his friend dismissing his advances. (MadcapLaughs)
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In the countryside of Iran, a poor fifteen year-old boy, called Ali, has frictions with his violent and retrograde religious father, Hussein. (imdb)
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Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.
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Chicken with Plums follows the last days of a talented musician's life as he desperately seeks to replace his beloved instrumental, the violin. (tiff.net)
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Ali Bolourchi, a santour player (Bahram Radan) narrates his life after his wife Hanieh (Golshifteh Farahani) left him. Ali now makes a living playing music with his band at weddings and house parties where he is often given drugs instead of money to support his heroin addiction..... (en.wikipedia.org)
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Habibeh (Golshifteh Farahani) hurts on an ancient mount in a discovery journey by a mine that setup in Iran-Iraq war.
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A woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country delivers an engrossing, emotional monologue to her comatose husband, in novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi's poetic and politically charged allegory based on his award-winning novel. (tiff.net)
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A Chicago housewife runs off to Las Vegas to compete in a belly dancing competition.
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What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy. (imdb)
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Twenty-year-old daughter out after the death of his father, who had been living with motorcycle deaths on the wall hard and poor life with great mother and her younger brother is ... (imdb)
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Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. (mubi.com)
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The life of a French DJ who's credited with inventing "French house" or the "French touch," a type of French electronic music that became popular in the 1990s. (imdb)
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A journalist is detained in Iran for more than 100 days and brutally interrogated in prison. (imdb)
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The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues. (imdb)
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Two best friends have their relationship tested when Abel tries to help his friend Clement with the latter's love interest Mona. (imdb)
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Set in the present in Paterson, New Jersey, this is a tale about a bus driver and poet. (imdb)
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Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country. But there's still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who disappeared mysteriously during the civil war. Something happened in this house. Something violent. A young woman searching for the truth and discovering herself. (imdb)
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Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon.
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A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy paraplegic and an unemployed man with a criminal record who's hired to help him. (imdb)
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LEMON TREE meets JOHN LE CARRÉ in a subtle thriller set in Germany involving Mona, a Lebanese woman, and Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent sent to protect their informant while recovering from plastic surgery for her new identity. Mona and Naomi - together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg. A safe house. A shelter. No one saw what was coming, no one knew that this supposedly quiet fortnight would turn into an abyss and that shelter would need to be found elsewhere. (betacinema.com)
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A girl's life changes dramatically after she is left in the care of her stepmother. (eyeforfilm.co.uk)
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Somewhere in Kurdistan, not too long ago, Bahar (Farahani), a young lawyer, visits her family. In a bloody attack led by extremists, her husband is killed and she's taken prisoner with her son and thousands of other women and children. A few months after her escape, she's now the commander of the "Girls of the Sun", a female battalion. (elledriver.fr)
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The morning after a party, a young man wakes up to find Paris invaded by zombies. (imdb)
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gen:LOCK (2019) - TV Series
Earth, 2068. City by city, free society is being forcibly absorbed into a vast autocracy. One military force holds the line. One pilot could turn the tide.
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Dominick Brassan has the power to turn invisible, but he keeps it a shameful secret. Then, when his ability to control his gift gets out of hand, his life, friendships and relationships will be forever turned inside out. (imdb)
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»Arab Blues«, follows Selma, played by Golshifteh Farahani, as she returns to Tunisia to start a psychotherapy practice. Selma struggles to find patients in a culture that hasn't encouraged the idea of opening up and sifting through your psyche, especially to a stranger. Eventually, she does get to know a colorful array of people, all with their own issues and quirks, and realizes that she herself has her own struggles to work through. (stockholmfilmfestival.se)
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Tyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he's enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
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A story of twisted love, revenge and the redemptive power of a song. (imdb)
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Invasion (2021) - TV Mini-Series
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The story revolves around a brother and sister who are nearing their fifties - Alice is an actress, Louis was a teacher and a poet. They no longer speak to one another and have been avoiding each other for over twenty years, but the death of their parents will force them to cross paths.
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Elmer Elevator searches for a captive Dragon on Wild Island and finds much more than he could ever have anticipated.
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Four youngsters decide to solve their financial problems by stealing. They bring guns and gather and steal from a shop and run away but the police chase them and find them. (imdb)
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After barely surviving his grievous wounds from his mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tyler Rake is back, and his team is ready to take on their next mission. (imdb)
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A bored office worker may have accidentally sparked a revolution in a bizarre dystopian world.
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A woman makes her living smuggling exotic animals and illicit goods. She creates a mobile app that connects customers with marabouts, but when a user's consultation takes a tragic turn, her life and that of her son hang in the balance.
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VTC (2021) - TV Series
Nora is a night driver for a ride sharing app whose life is falling apart: drowning in debt, divorced, and sleeping in her car to save money to rent an apartment and obtain joint custody of her daughter. (imdb)
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