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Amin Jafari

Birth : 1974-03-04, Hamedan, Iran

History

Amin Jafari 1974, Iran Educations: Graphic design diploma & Masters of Cinema from Soreh University Tehran, Iran Perofessional activities since 1996 Director of Photography in feature films: ■ Conditional release (Azad be ghide shart) Iran, 2016 ■ Dancing Feet (Raghsepa) 2016, Iran ■ Anonymity (Binami) 2016, Iran details ■ Drum (Table) 2016,Iran details ■ The Place (Makan) 2016, Iran details ■ Immortality (Javdanegi) 2015 ,Iran details ■ A very ordinary citizen (Yek shahrvand kamelan mamoli) 2014-2015, Iran details ■ A man who became horse (Mardi ke asb shod) 2014, Iran details ■ Jansuda 2013, Thailand details ■ Snow (Barf) 2013, Iran details ■ From the Southeast (Az joonob sharghi) 2012, Iran ■ Bending the Rules (Ghaede tasadof) 2012, Iran details ■ Parviz (parviz) 2012, Iran details ■ Rainy season (Fasle baranhaye mosemi) 2010, Iran details ■ Dancing with the moon (raghs ba maah) 2005, Iran Director of Photography in more then 30 short and medium-length films. Director of Photography documentaries in more than 15 industrial documentaries. Director of Photography in the TV series entitled House of Secrets (Razhaye yek khane) 17 episodes, 2012, iran Director of Photography in the TV series entitled Towards Heaven (Ro be aseman) 2006,Iran. Director of Photography in more then 25 TV advertisements. Awards: ■The best DOP from in Rain Film Festival for the short film, The Silence(Sokoot) 2005, Iran ■The best DOP from Sanfrancisco Iranian Film Festival for Parviz, 2013, USA

Movies

Director of Photography

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Director of Photography

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

Ballad of a White Cow

Ballad of a White Cow

Director of Photography

Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.

Camera Department Manager

Assad, along with his group, creates fake accident scenes to claim insurance.

Director of Photography

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing encounters abound, but they soon discover that the local hospitality is rivaled by the desire to protect old traditions.

Conditional Release

Conditional Release

Camera Department Manager

Keyvan Has Been Sentenced 25 years In Jail. He is released on condition after 10 but...

Director of Photography

Six families in different compartments of a train, moving through a rainy night. In a single, 145-minute take, the film depicts the families and how their lives are interwoven with each other. Vacillating between dream and reality, each story builds on the one before and leads into the next. Each destiny is influenced by the other one on board, and all hurtle to the same destination.

Director of Photography

The atmosphere is dreamlike, the characters have no name, neither the streets. Teheran is the only character whose name is constantly evoked. A lawyer, as many others, works and lives alone in his apartment, which is both his office and his home. In a cold and rainy day, a man burst into his apartment, speaks to him shortly and confusingly and gives him a package that will completely change his life. Venice 2016 - Semaine de la Critique selection.

A Very Ordinary Citizen

A Very Ordinary Citizen

Director of Photography

Mr. Safari, an 80-year-old pensioner, lives alone and without direction. When his son, living abroad, tries to arrange for his elderly father to visit him, Mr. Safari becomes dangerously obsessed with a local female travel agent who is hired to help. Co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold, Taxi), this provocative story delivers a quietly powerful statement about loneliness and those who get left behind in contemporary Tehran.

A Very Ordinary Citizen

A Very Ordinary Citizen

Cinematography

Mr. Safari, an 80-year-old pensioner, lives alone and without direction. When his son, living abroad, tries to arrange for his elderly father to visit him, Mr. Safari becomes dangerously obsessed with a local female travel agent who is hired to help. Co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold, Taxi), this provocative story delivers a quietly powerful statement about loneliness and those who get left behind in contemporary Tehran.

Mardi Ke Asb Shod

Mardi Ke Asb Shod

Director of Photography

An old man living with his only daughter tries to keep her close to him by any means, although she is married. With longing for what was, the daughter becomes attached to the one thing she has left of her deceased mother, a horse. Jealous of her affections, the old and stubborn patriarch sets the horse free, leading to his daughter’s despair... This evocative and at times frightening power game is about isolation, vulnerability and how we can become too dependent on those we love.

Bending the Rules

Bending the Rules

Director of Photography

The Rule of Accident is about a group of theatre students who are trying to prepare and present a piece of theatre.

Director of Photography

Parviz has as its increasingly horrifying anti-hero the 50-year-old hulk of a passive-aggressive bachelor son (theater director/activist Haftvan), whose free ride in life screeches to a halt when his miserly widowed father forms a plan to remarry.