This is a list of Iranian film directors representing various genres and periods of Iranian cinema.
A Saber Abar Ali Abbasi Mostafa Abdollahi Narges Abyar Aramais Aghamalian Morteza Aghili Mohammad Ahmadi Mania Akbari Shahram Alidi Reza Allamehzadeh Cyrus Alvand Mohsen Amiryoussefi Kiarash Anvari Mohammad Reza Aslani Abolfazl Attar Reza Attaran Morteza Avini Kianoush Ayari
B Reza Badiyi Maziar Bahari Ramin Bahrani Parisa Bakhtavar Rakhshan Bani-E'temad Bahram Bayzai Reza Beyk Imanverdi Asghar Bichareh Shiva Boloorian Marzieh Boroumand
C Henri Charr
D Hajir Darioush Alireza Davood Nejad Masoud Dehnamaki Pouran Derakhshandeh Kioumars Derambakhsh Reza Dormishian
E Nader Ebrahimi Robert Ekhart Tanaz Eshaghian Matt Eskandari
F Mehdi Fakhimzadeh Mitra Farahani Mohammad Ali Fardin Asghar Farhadi Bahman Farmanara Mohammad Farokhmanesh Hamid Farrokhnezhad Forough Farrokhzad Aryana Farshad Sepideh Farsi Hassan Fathi Reza Fazeli Sadaf Foroughi Frood Fouladvand
G Kamran Ghadakchian Iraj Ghaderi Farrokh Ghaffari Shahyar Ghanbari Tina Gharavi Shapoor Gharib Behrouz Gharibpour Amir Ghavidel Regis Ghezelbash Bahman Ghobadi Fereydun Gole Ebrahim Golestan
H Mani Haghighi Hassan Hajgozar Khosrow Haritash Zakaria Hashemi Ali Hatami Ebrahim Hatamikia Manijeh Hekmat Mohammad-Reza Honarmand Robert Hossein Shahab Hosseini Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour
J Mehdi Jafari Masoud Jafari Jozani Abolfazl Jalili Vahid Jalilvand Rambod Javan Nima Javidi Fereydoun Jeyrani
K Abdolreza Kahani Narges Kalhor Fariborz Kamkari Cyrus Kar Sadegh Karamyar Varuzh Karim-Masihi Niki Karimi Nosrat Karimi Mohammad Kart Ali Kasmaei Maryam Keshavarz Samuel Khachikian Valiollah Khakdan Loghman Khaledi Sina Khani Alireza Khatami Abbas Kiarostami Bahman Kiarostami Masoud Kimiai Parviz Kimiavi Alexis Kouros Esmail Koushan Mahmoud Koushan
L Ali Limonadi Gholamhussein Lotfi
M Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian Majid Majidi Hana Makhmalbaf Mohsen Makhmalbaf Samira Makhmalbaf Naser Malek Motiei Yassamin Maleknasr Asghar Massombagi Dariush Mehrjui Marzieh Meshkini Tahmineh Milani Maziar Miri Reza Mirkarimi Mehdi Missaghieh Mehran Modiri Jalal Moghadam Mahnaz Mohammadi Hamid Mojtahedi Shahram Mokri Rasoul Mollagholipour Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh Ebrahim Moradi Ali Mosaffa Bahman Motamedian Farzad Motamen Granaz Moussavi Duraid Munajim
N Marva Nabili Amir Naderi Gholam-Hossein Naghshineh Shirin Neshat Parviz Nouri Mohammad Nourizad Hossein Nuri
O Ovanes Ohanian Mostafa Oskooyi Arby Ovanessian
P Tina Pakravan Jafar Panahi Kambuzia Partovi Maziar Partow Khosrow Parvizi Babak Payami Rafi Pitts Kiumars Poorahmad Ali Pourtash
R Fereydoun Rahnema Hossein Rajabian Iraj Raminfar Rouzbeh Rashidi Behrouz Sebt Rasoul Mohammad Rasoulof Amir Shahab Razavian Mehdi Reisfirooz Shahla Riahi Jamil Rostami Saeed Roustayi
S Rasul Sadr Ameli Afsaneh Salari Saman Salur Hamid Samandarian Marjane Satrapi Parviz Sayyad Soroush Sehhat Abdolhossein Sepanta Houman Seyyedi Hossein Shahabi Parviz Shahbazi Sohrab Shahid-Saless Shahrzad Javad Shamaqdari Siamak Shayeghi Amir Shervan Kamran Shirdel Mohammad Shirvani Khosrow Sinai
T Kamal Tabrizi Nasser Taghvaei Hamid Tamjidi Susan Taslimi Bahram Tavakoli Farkhondeh Torabi
V Joseph Vaezian Nosratollah Vahdat
Y Siamak Yasemi Hassan Yektapanah
Z Mona Zandi Haghighi Tony Zarrindast Noureddin Zarrinkelk
See also Iranian cinema Persian theatre List of Iranian cinematographers List of Iranian films
References
External links Film International, Iranian film quarterly Iranian film directors on IMDb Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf among "The world's 40 best directors" Women of Iranian popular cinema Nantes festival director calls Iranian cinema one of world's best Faces, short biographies of some Iranian actors and film directors, Film International