Bahram Beiza’i (1938)

He dropped out of Tehran University. He started his cinematic career in 1970, making the short film “Uncle Mustachio”. Film and stage director, playwright and screenwriter and researcher. He has experienced other filmmaking fields, like editing, titling and producing. Director of near 24 pictures, including 11 feature films. After fifty years being active, his name is tied with Iran national theater. Beiza’i believes that, “As an artist, I am obliged to show on the stage or on the screen, what we can not see in the real life.”

Bahram Beiza’i: “I do not only make films; I do what I can, just to express myself. If I can’t make my movie, I work a play, If doing it becomes impossible, I start writing, if this becomes also impossible, I would read books or teach or hum a tune. Anyway, at each time, I am doing something. My intention is to give my thoughts to you and vice versa.” The characteristic of his work are being symbolic, changing the there elements of subject matter, performing style and the language.