Mohammad Farokhmanesh
Mohammad Farokhmanesh (born November 26, 1971 in Shiraz , Iran) is a German director , writer and film producer of Iranian descent.
Career
Mohammad Farokhmanesh made his first short films while studying film at the HfBK Hamburg. He studied visual communication with a focus on film in Hamburg between 1995 and 2001, after which he worked as a production consultant for two years.
In 2000 he founded his own production company "brave new work GmbH" together with Frank Geiger and Armin Hofmann, based in Hamburg and Cologne.
As a director and producer, he has made over twenty documentaries, feature films and short films to date. In 2009 he made his feature film debut, Reich des Böse , which was shown in the IDFA competition and was awarded the Gerd Ruge grant from the Filmstiftung NRW. As a producer he produced a. a. TEHERAN TABU, which premiered in 2017 at the Cannes Film Festival. His partially animated documentary KLEINE GERMANEN, which he made together with Frank Geiger, was currently pre-selected for the German Film Prize.
Awards
- 2004: Gerd-Ruge-Scholarship - Award for the Empire of Evil
- 2008: Bucharest International Film Festival - Best Documentary for Evil Empire
- 2007: International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam - Nomination for First Appearance Award, Amsterdam for Empire of Evil
- 2007: Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival - nomination for the Golden Key for the Empire of Evil
- 2017: Cannes International Film Festival - nomination for the Caméra d'Or and the "Critics' Week Grand Prize"
- 2019: German Film Award - (pre-selection) for Small Teutons
Filmography
- 2001: Roadkill
- 2002: Join in - hands-on theater against violence
- 2004: Agujero
- 2004: Another league
- 2006: 37 without onions
- 2006: Colors of Memory
- 2006: Strip Min
- 2007: a beautiful melody
- 2007: Gordian Troeller revisited
- 2008: Empire of Evil
- 2009: Kick in Iran
- 2012: 45 minutes to Ramallah
- 2014: City Of Sounds
- 2014: The Mamba
- 2017: Tehran taboo
- 2017: Made in Islam
- 2019: Little Teutons
- 2019: Tomorrow we are free
Web links
- Mohammad Farokhmanesh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farokhmanesh, Mohammad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and film producer of Iranian descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shiraz , Iran |