Kambuzia Partovi

Iranian film director and screenwriter (1955–2020)

Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee

(m. 1980; div. 2011)

Nasrin Moradi

(m. 2017)

AwardsUNICEF Award (1989)
FIPRESCI Prize (2006)

Kambuzia Partovi (also spelt Kambozia Partovi, Persian: کامبوزیا پرتوی; 11 November 1955 – 24 November 2020) was an Iranian film director and screenwriter.

Biography

He was born in Rasht, Iran, on the Caspian Sea. After studying theater arts in school he wrote mainly scripts for TV series.

In 1988 he made his feature film debut with Golnar.^[1] His 2007 film Café Transit, which received the special mention at Mar del Plata film festival, was selected by Iran as its candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He wrote screenplays for other directors, most notably Jafar Panahi's The Circle. In 2013 he acted in and co-directed Closed Curtain with Panahi. Partovi trained and supported many Iranian artists and film makers, most notably Bahman Ghobadi.

He died on 24 November 2020, of complications from COVID-19.

Filmography

Director

1988 Golnar
1990 The Singer Cat
1991 The Fish
1992 The Adult Game
1994 The Legend of Two Sisters
1997 Naneh Lala va farzandanash
2005 Café Transit
2013 Closed Curtain (co-directed with Jafar Panahi)

Screenwriter

2000 The Circle
2015 Muhammad (together with Majid Majidi)

Awards and honors

UNICEF Award (1989)
FIPRESCI Prize (2006)
Special Mention at Mar del Plata Film Festival (2006)

References

^ "Pardé" (PDF). berlinale. Retrieved 2013-02-24.

External links

Kambuzia Partovi at IMDb

Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay

Not Awarded (1983)
Alireza Davoodnejad and Ebrahim Makki (1984)
No winner (1985)
Majid Gharizadeh (1986)
Masoud Jafari Jozani (1987)
No winner (1988)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1989)
Dariush Mehrjui (1990)
Yadollah Samadi (1991)
Asghar Abdollahi and Hassan Gholizadeh (1992)
Dariush Mehrjui (1993)
Mohammad-Ali Talebi and Houshang Moradi Kermani (1994)
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (1995)
Kamal Tabrizi and Reza Maghsoodi (1996)
Majid Majidi (1997)
Ebrahim Hatamikia (1998)
Tahmineh Milani (1999)
Khosrow Sinai and Hamid Farrokhnezhad (2000)
Bahram Beyzai (2001)
Kambuzia Partovi and Rasul Sadr-Ameli (2002)
Parviz Shahbazi (2003)
Peyman Ghasemkhani (2004)
Kambuzia Partovi (2005)
No winner (2006)
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Farid Mostafavi, Mohsen Abdolvahab and Naghmeh Samini (2007)
Shadmehr Rastin and Reza Mirkarimi (2008)
Abolhassan Davoodi and Farid Mostafavi (2009)
Homayoun Shahnavaz and Shahram Asadi (2010)
Asghar Farhadi (2011)
Mostafa Kiayee (2012)
Behnam Behzadi (2013)
Behrouz Afkhami (2014)
Roya Mohaghegh (2015)
Saeed Roustayi (2016)
Kambuzia Partovi (2017)
Kambuzia Partovi / Houman Seyyedi (2018)
Mohsen Gharaie and Mohammad Davoudi (2019)
Majid Majidi and Nima Javidi (2020)
Arsalan Amiri, Ida Panahandeh and Tahmineh Bahram (2021)
Kazem Daneshi (2022)
Babak Khajeh Pasha (2023)
No winner (2024)