Actor info
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Name :
Mania Akbari
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Born :
September 22, 1974 in Tehran, Iran (52 years old)
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Known for :
Directing
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Gender :
Female
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Film career :
10 films (2002–2026)
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mania Akbari is an Iranian film director. Akbari began her artistic career as a painter in 1991. She entered the world of cinema as a director of photography and later as an assistant director of documentaries. In 2002, she starred in Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten and in 2003 co-directed the documentary Crystal. In 2005 she wrote, directed and starred in her first feature film, 20 Fingers, winner of a prize at the Venice Film Festival digital film competition. In 2007, Akbari directed a sequel to Kiarostami's Ten entitled 10+4 (Dah Be Alaveh Chahar) in which she depicts her battle with cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mania Akbari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable films
- Three Ways of Returning (2026)
- Dancing Mania (2012) as Self
- Cinema Iran (2005) as Self
- 20 Fingers (2004) as The Wife
- Ten (2002) as Driver
