Masoud Kimiai

Known for DirectingBorn 1941-07-29 (age 84)Tehran, Iran

Masoud Kimiai or Masud Kimiaei (Persian: مسعود کیمیایی‎‎, born 29 July 1941 in Tehran) is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer. Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, Come Stranger, in 1968. With his second film, Qeysar (1969), he and Dariush Mehrjui with The film The Cow, caused a historical change in Iranian film industry. But Dariush Mehrjui's film with more artistic values has sustained its level of greatness through history of Iranian cinema. Qeysar became a great success at the box office and opened the way for young, talented filmmakers who never had a chance in the industry before. His films deal with people at the margin of the society with his anti-hero characters that die at the end. Many directors of commercial films imitated his Kaiser/ Qeysar for about 6 years, but in the last decade he focuses on young antagonists. He usually writes his screenplays, using slang dialogs based on ordinary traditional people’s dialect but some Iranians find those dialogues unrealistic and weird. In 1991, he was awarded a prize in 41st Berlin International Film Festival for his Snake Fang. This was not his sole international prize. At the Cairo International Film festival in 1979 he got from the International Catholic Organisation for Cinema (OCIC), the OCIC Prize for his film The Journey of the Stone. The international OCIC jury gave its award to this film because The Journey of the Stone denounced the exploitation of mankind by mankind and called for a more just social order. Crime directed by Kimiai Winner Crystal Simorgh Best Film in Fajr International Film Festival 2011. He has been married 3 times. He was married to the late Iranian pop singer Giti Pashaei until 1991, afterwards he married the Iranian pop singer Googoosh.Read more

Movies & web series

Cry

The Trade

The Blade and the Silk

Ghazal

Mercedes

Dead End

First Case, Second Case

Trial on the Street

The Deer

Soltan

Qeysar

Reza, the Motorcyclist

Shirak

Oriental Boy

The Feast

The Lead

Snake's Fang

Dash Akol

The Wolf's Trail

Protest

Journey of the Stone

A Good Time for Tragedy

The Sergeant

The Red Line

The Soil

Verdict

Biganeh Biya

Friday's Soldiers

Crime

Baluch

Domestic Killer

Khoon Shod

Metropole

The Boss

Killing a Traitor

Pure White

The Last Hero

Cahiers du Film

Mohakate Ghazaleh Alizadeh

The Horse

Fannizadeh