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Esmael Barari

اسماعیل براری Esmael Barari

Born	26 October 1965 Bandar Anzali, Iran(age 45)
Nationality	Iran
Occupation	Film director, Producer
Years active	since 1988

Esmael Barari (Persian: اسماعیل براری ); born in 1965 in the Caspian Sea port of Bandar Anzali is an Iranian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer. He is director of [1] and a member of and a member of international jury of -2007 [2].

Film career

Esmael Barari graduated in filmmaking from . In 1988, his short film, REACTION, won top prize at the first National Students Film Festival of Tehran and the silver plaque at the 1989 . His other short films are NADER'S GIFT (1989) and LONELINESS AND THE CLOD (1990) which was presented in FIPA Cannes-91 and received The Golden Butterfly for the Best Film at 5th . Up to now he has made more than twenty feature, documentary and short films & TV series.

Cinematic Style

Barari is part of a generation of filmmakers in the , a Persian cinema movement that started in the 1980s and includes pioneering directors such as Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Amir Naderi, Abolfazl Jalili, Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi, Rakhshan Bani-E'temad and Majid Majidi. The filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues with documentary style narrative films. Barari's works are influenced by documentary filmmaker Morteza Avini and narrative film director Abbas Kiarostami, Who has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of contemporary Iranian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. "Barari is the unvarnished offspring of Kiarostami and Hitchcock!"