● Birthplace: Tehran
Biography
Masoud Kimai received his high school diploma from Badr High School. After the end of the high school, he entered the intellectual realm and accompanied several interested friends, a group of publishing the foundation. He is the initiators of the new wave in the cinema of Iran. Massoud Kimiai began his cinematic activity in 1966 with the assistant of Samuel Khachikian, the great director of Iranian cinema, in the Goodbye film Tehran. Come the first alien film in the year 1968. A year later, it reaches the desired reputation by making a Kaiser. Although Kaiser is not located in his first show among the public, it breaks the sales record in the second. The Kaiser is converted into a symbol. Something that had occurred in Iranian cinema until that time. Accordingly, the hero of the film is introduced to the people who are rooted in the history and geography of Iran, and is a kind of revenge on the individual who liking the Iranian honor of those years. The year 1969, due to the view of two films made by Dariush historians and Kaiser, is a milestone in the history of Iranian cinema. Both films form the foundation of Iran’s new wave of cinema, of course, in different trends. In the later films such as Reza Motori, Dash Akol, it continues to repeat individual rebellion against the social values of past procedural. Most of the works of Kimiai in the socio-political genre. In addition to cinematic activities, he also experienced a novel writing and poetry. In the year 1991 for the film, the crown was a candidate for the Golden Bear Award of Berlin Film Festival and the Special Jury award of Berlin Film Festival was also donated to him. Also in the year 2010 for the crime film, The Crystal Simorgh received the best film from Fajr Film Festival. Essential films can be pointed to Kaiser, Baluch, Dash Akol, earth, The Deer, red line, Snake Teeth, trade and crime. In a voting of 55 of the Iranian cinematic, The Deer film was identified with 17 votes-along with the small stranger, Bahram Beyzai, the best film of the history 2002 of Iranian cinema.
The deer, which are considered to be the best film in the year 1975, are made. And it puts two different types of heroes together. That will eventually complement the personality. Many believe that this film along with Kaiser is the most important pre-revolution works. Ghazal is his next film adaptation of a book of the prestigious نویسندهٔ Jorge Lewis Borwheezing, perhaps the most diverse and most exotic film of his book. After that, he made a visit to the stone in 1977, which is somehow a prophetic aspect of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. He received the Best Director award from Cairo International Film Festival for the film. In the following, the golden plaque of the International Catholic Cinema Organization was donated to Kimiai. In 1982, he directed the film The Red Line by Saeed Rad, the film was banned, except once a show was never displayed at the Fajr Film Festival.
Most of the movement are the most coherent people of cinema after the Revolution Snake Teeth the product 1989, who is nominated for the Golden Bear Award of Berlin International Film Festival, and eventually receives the Special Jury award of Berlin International Film Festival. After that an kimiuse of young faces, he introduces him as illustrator of the youth life of the Seventies. With the film The Sultan of his son Poulad Kimiayi as an actress to the cinema.
The script has written all his works, as well as the compilation and design of a number of films, such as Sergeant, Wolf Footprints, Mercedes and Scream. The blade and silk in the year 1985 and the lead in 1988 was also with a political style and a belief made by Kimiai which is a remarkable effect. 1999 protests were made by political prisoners in 1979. That had a lasting dialogue. It was also the first time in the year 2003 in a eight-step documentary in the tulip, the hope of Noble Mousavi, the front of the camera, and the main narrator of the film was the Tehran of the old famous street. Which has always been made in most films itself and even Rmansh has expressed its very own attachment. After the revolution, he founded the free film Workshop. Kimiai in 2008 in partnership with Asghar Farhadi, a trial of the street makes. The crime film was brought to the first prize in the Fajr Film Festival in 2010 for Kimiai.
Theme most of the films of the film are often made of beliefs and values that are either missing or faded. He said that he was a tale of his life and zeal. And its ghahrenuses with these traits in the context of modern society with socio-political problems involved in defending their values. The values that popular people may have loved but are in contradiction with the modern life. Criticism of such a matter that even sometimes has passed the price of the norms, is the most important challenge of the critics. They are not the same as this narrative, but the insistence of a non-kimiilly of false hope.
An important part of the charm of the film is the champion’s legendary character. The championship that fights and disappears in the heart of society. To create your own world and in this way it is fabulous. The most obvious ability to be in his script is his own dialogue and monologs. It is good to know the slang or the alley and the market and there is a lot of skill in creating a suitable blow. With Ali Hatami, Kimiai also has to be the creator of a major part of the most famous dialogues in the history of Iranian cinema. The sentence Discourses Nasser Malek Motiee in the film and the Kaiser and Soqbian in the deer film. It can be said that the message of the heroes of the most important and unique films in the amidst film are evident. A message that depicts the pure ideals of Iranians.
Cinema
1968 – Come Alien
1969 – Kaiser
1970 – Reza Motori
1971 – Dash Agkel
1972 – Baloch
1973 – Soil
1974 – The Deer
1975 – Eastern Guy – Short Film
1976 – Ghazal
1976 – Pony – Short Film
1977 – Rock Travel
1982 – Red Line
1985 – Razor and silk
1988 – The Lead
1989 – Snake Fang
1990 – The Sergeant
1991 – Wolf footprints
1994 – Business
1995 – Banquet
1996 – Sultan
1997 – Mercedes
1998 – Shout
1999 – Objection
2003 – Friday Soldiers
2004 – The Command
2006 – The Chief
2008 – A Street Trial
2010 – Crime
2013 – Metropol
2016 – Ghatel-e Ahli
Articles
2001 – Glass – Romanc – Atie Publication
2003 – Wound Healing, Poetry Office – Varjamand Publication
2005 – Jealously (on life Ayn al Quzat)
2015 – The Hymns of The Big Orchestra – Romance – Akhtaran Publication
About Masoud Kimiaei
Books
– Masoud Kimiai and The World- Romance – Review by Arash Sanjabi and Mansour Yaghooti – Afraz Publishing
– Ontology of understanding – Literary Criticism by Arash Sanjabi and Mansour Yaghooti – Ameh Book
– Collections of articles in review and introduction of Masoud Kimiaei – Zaven Qkayon – Agah Publishing
Documentaries
– Mr. Kimiai – Directed by Amir Ghaderi
– President’s Ruling
– Kaiser: Forty Years later
– It Is Time To Finish
Awards
1969 – Winner of Best director in Tehran’s Sepas film Festival for Qeysar film
1969 – The Berlin International Film Festival candidate for Qeysar film
1971 – Best Film to the absolute concept and best Director of Sepas Tehran Film Festival for Dash Akol film
1989 – The best of the top award candidate for competition in promotional materials films from 8th Fajr Film Festival for Sarab film
1971 – Winner of the best International Society of Tashkent Film Association’s Award for Dash Akol film
1976 – International Film Festival of Mannheim – Heidelberg Award for Ghazal film
1979 – Winner of the best prize in Cairo International Film Festival for Stone Travel film
1979 – Golden Plaque Award winner of the International Catholic Cinema Organization for Stone Travel film
1991 – Winner of the Best Film Award for the Association of Critics and Writers of Iran film for Snake Fang film
1991 – Golden Bear Award, Berlin International Film Festival for Snake Dental film
1991 – Special Appreciation Award for Berlin International Film Festival for Snake Fang film
1991 – Special Jury award, Montreal International Film Festival for the Snake Snake Fang film
1991 – Nominated Hugo Golden International Film Festival Chicago for the Snake Fang film
1992 – Award nominated Venice Golden Lion International Film Festival for Sergeant film
1996 – The golden statue of the best costume design of the first edition of Cinema House celebration for Sultan film
1999 – A candid of crystal Simorgh best directing for Protest film
2008 – Hafez Award for Best Film of Festival of Art and Image for Trial on the Street film
2010 – Special Critics Award for Crime film in the twenty-ninth Fajr Film Festival
2010 – Winner of the Crystal Simorgh Award for Best Film in the Twenty – Ninth Fajr Film Festival for Crime film
2010 – Candid of Crystal Simorgh Best Director and Best screenplay in Twenty – Ninth Fajr Film Festival for Crime film
