Mahmoud Kalari

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-04-30 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Tehran, Iran

Mahmoud Kalari

Biography

Mahmoud Kalari (Persian: محمود کلاری; born in Tehran) is an Iranian cinematographer, screenwriter, film director, and photographer who has worked with number of renowned Iranian directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Asghar Farhadi, and Mohsen Makhmalbaf. After completing photography courses in the United States, he held his first photo exhibition titled "Visit with People Around Us" at Tehran University in 1976. A few years later he was employed by the Paris-based Sigma Photo News Agency and worked for them for four years. In 1980, he was ranked one of the '15 Best Photographers of the Year' by Time Magazine, and his photos could...

Acting

2016

Cahiers du Film

as as himself

2006

Being Farmanara

as himself

2022

2006

Men at Work

as Mohsen

2005

Production

2004

Abadan

as Cinematography

2013

The Past

as Director of Photography

2005

Cinema Iran

as Director of Photography

2005

Tickets

as Director of Photography

2001

The Hidden Half

as Director of Photography

2011

A Separation

as Director of Photography

1991

Time of Love

as Director of Photography

2024

Summertime

as Director

1998

The Pear Tree

as Director of Photography

2003

Boutique

as Director of Photography

2022

I Am Forough

as Director of Photography

1995

Salaam Cinema

as Director of Photography

1999

The Wind Will Carry Us

as Director of Photography

2018

Pig

as Director of Photography

1992

The Sergeant

as Director of Photography

2013

Fish & Cat

as Director of Photography

1996

Gabbeh

as Director of Photography

1996

A Moment of Innocence

as Director of Photography

2009

Shirin

as Director of Photography

2016

Bodyguard

as Director of Photography

2016

Bodyguard

as Original Music Composer

1993

Sara

as Director of Photography

2007

The Fish Fall in Love

as Director of Photography

1999

Leila

as Director of Photography

1989

The Lead

as Director of Photography

2004

Friday's Soldiers

as Director of Photography

1996

The Trade

as Director of Photography

2006

Bab'Aziz

as Director of Photography

1990

Mother

as Director of Photography

1987

The Stone Lion

as Director of Photography

2018

Columbus

as Director of Photography

2017

Ferrari

as Director of Photography

2007

Persian Carpet

as Director of Photography

2011

Mainline

as Director of Photography

1991

Two and a Half Men

as Cinematography

2017

2000

Tales of an Island

as Cinematography

2020

Killer Spider

as Director of Photography

2010

Blood Orange

as Cinematography

2009

Hot Chocolate

as Director of Photography

2010

Forties

as Cinematography

2006

Havana File

as Cinematography

1998

Red

as Cinematography

1999

Siavash

as Cinematography

2002

A House Built on Water

as Cinematography

2001

Water and Fire

as Cinematography

2024

Summertime

as Writer

2006

Offside

as Director of Photography

1993

The Wolf's Trail

as Director of Photography

2021

Major

as Director of Photography

2005

The Willow Tree

as Director of Photography

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