Tahmineh Milani

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Tahmineh Milani

Tahmineh Milani ( listen ? / I PersianAudio file / audio sample تهمینه میلانی, born September 1, 1960 in Tabriz , Iran) is a director , screenwriter and film producer .

education

Milani studied architecture at the University of Science and Technology in Tehran until 1979 . When the universities closed in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution , Milani took part in a scriptwriting seminar. Then she made her first professional experience in the film industry as a script girl and assistant director .

In 1989 she made her first film as a director with Children of Divorce . In 1990 she wrote the screenplay for the film Love & Death by Mohammad Reza Alami.

Work as a director

As a director, Milani has made award-winning films such as Two Women , The Fifth Reaction and Zan-e ziadi ( The Unwanted Woman ). They often deal with economic, cultural and social issues that affect women, especially those from the middle class. Milanis courageous protagonists often suffer from the misogynist regime. In Milani's opinion, one of the biggest problems in Iran today is that people cannot show their personality and are thus forced to lead a double life.

Milani's early films work with fairytale elements, such as: B. Afsāneh-ye Āh ( The Legend of a Sigh ) from 1991: Here a writer with writer's block conjures up a ghost with her sigh. The Spirit shows her other women who have much bigger problems than herself but who remain strong. Two years later, Milani made the science fiction film Digeh Che Khabar ( What's New? ), Again with a young woman as the main character. She got into trouble with the censorship: she should replace the female with a male main character. Milani fended off attempts to intervene and the criticism that she incited women to revolt against the system.

When The Hidden Half came out in 2001 , Milani was accused of supporting anti-revolutionary forces with the film. The story is about a woman who protested against the Shah's regime as a student. Years later, when her husband, a judge, is supposed to convict a woman of similar offenses, she tells him about her past. The Hidden Half is the first Iranian film to address the fact that universities in the country were closed for years after the Islamic Revolution. Milani was arrested in 2001, even though a filming permit had been granted under the reform-minded government of Mohammad Khatami . Only after the intervention of some Iranian and international film greats such as Abbas Kiarostami , Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Francis Ford Coppola was she released after two weeks. While the trial was still ongoing, she and her husband produced the film Bemani (Stay Alive) by Dariush Mehrjui .

Milani received mixed reviews for Vakonesh Panjom ( The Fifth Reaction ) from 2003: The film, in which, as is often the case with Milani, Niki Karimi took the lead role, was accused of “woodcut-like figure drawing”. Men are to blame for everything bad that happens to women here. Other critics, however, described the film, which was shown at international festivals, as "passionate and exciting" and credited it with its "very direct feminism".

In 2006 Milani made the comedy Atash bas (Armistice) one of the most successful films in Iran. Here, too, she shows the strength of women in a society that does not want to give them a voice. Atash bas , however, also contains echoes of American screwball comedies , and especially to Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder . It marked the beginning of a series of films that dealt for the first time with the contemporary Iranian middle class. In 2014 Milani shot the sequel Atash bas II.

Allegations of plagiarism

In 2018, a group of young artists raised allegations of plagiarism against Milani. In an exhibition in Tehran, the director showed a picture that was very similar to a work by the illustrator Jenny Meilihove. Milani apologized for having seen a postcard with Meilihove's motif and for subconsciously allowing the impression to flow into her own work. She donated all of the proceeds from the exhibition to a good cause, but sued the gallery for terminating the exhibition earlier than agreed.

In 2019 there were further allegations of plagiarism against Milani, who was planning an exhibition of paintings in the Ariana Gallery in Tehran. Officials issued a warning to the gallery. Milani defended herself on social media with the statement that she was inspired by many things.

Private

Milani is married to actor and producer Mohammad Nikbin. Like Milani, Nikbin is originally an architect; the two parts of Tehran's subway system designed together. He was also involved in some of her films as an actor or producer.

Filmography as a director (selection)

  • Children of Divorce ( Bach'che'hā-ye Talāgh ), 1990
  • The Legend of a Sigh ( Afsāneh-ye Āh ), 1991
  • What's new ( Digeh che khabar? ), 1992
  • Cockatoo, 1995
  • Two women ( Do Zan ), 1999
  • The Hidden Half ( Nimeh-ye Penhān ), 2001
  • The Fifth Reaction ( Vakonesh Panjom ), 2003
  • The Unwanted Woman ( Zan-e Ziadi ), 2005
  • Cease Fire ( Atash Bas ), 2006
  • Settling Scores ( Tasvie Hesab ), 2007
  • Superstar, 2009
  • One of Our Two ( Yeki Az Ma Do Nafar ), 2011
  • Cease Fire II ( Atash Bas II ), 2014
  • Untaken Paths ( Mali & rah-hay narafteash ), 2017

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tahmineh Milani - A renowned feminist filmmaker . In: Iran Chamber Society . Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  2. ^ A b Jill Nelmes, Jule Selbo: Women Screenwriters: An International Guide . 1st edition. Palgrave Macmillan, London, ISBN 978-1-137-31236-5 , Tahmineh Milani (b.1960).
  3. ↑ Tahmineh Milani - A renowned feminist filmmaker. In: Iran Chamber Society. Accessed January 30, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Jill Nelmes, Jule Selbo (Ed.): Women Screenwriters: An International Guide . 1st edition. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-31237-2 , pp. 98 .
  5. ↑ a b "Well played" - 3rd Arab-Iranian Film Days of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. In: Heinrich Böll Foundation. March 7, 2008, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Legend of a Sigh (1991) - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Tahmineh Milani. In: Persian Film Festival Australia. June 20, 2017, Retrieved February 11, 2020 (Australian English).
  8. ↑ Steve Ross: Thorn in their side. In: The Guardian. November 2, 2001, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  9. ^ Gönül Dönmez-Colin (ed.): Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-makers from the Middle East and Central Asia . Intellect Ltd, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84150-143-7 , pp. 90 .
  10. ↑ Deborah Young: The Fifth Reaction. In: Variety. May 20, 2003, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Jill Nelmes, Jule Selbo (Ed.): Women Screenwriters: An International Guide . Palgrave Macmillan UK, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-31237-2 , pp. 99 .
  12. ^ Iranian women in search of rights. In: Los Angeles Times. August 29, 2003, Retrieved February 28, 2020 (American English).
  13. ↑ Atash bas. In: IMDb. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Jill Nelmes, Jule Selbo (Ed.): Women Screenwriters: An International Guide . Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, ISBN 978-1-137-31237-2 , pp. 100 .
  15. ↑ Tahmineh Milani accused of plagiarism (en) . In: Tehran Times , September 9, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2020. 
  16. ↑ Milani sues E1 Gallery over early closure of her exhibition. In: tehrantimes.com. September 17, 2018, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Tehran Ariana Gallery gets warning over Tahmineh Milani exhibition. In: tehrantimes.com. May 6, 2019, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Tahmineh Milani. In: imdb.com. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  19. ^ Josef Gugler: Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence . University of Texas Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-292-73756-3 , pp. 72 .
  20. ↑ Untaken Paths. In: Persia Film Distribution. September 3, 2017, Retrieved February 8, 2020 (American English).
  21. ^ Richard Peña: 1999 Tehran Film Festival: Being There. In: Film Comment. Film at Lincoln Center, 1999, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  22. ^ Cairo International Film Festival (2001). In: IMDb. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  23. ^ "Fifth Reaction" at Cairo Int'l Film Festival. In: More News Agency. October 5, 2003, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  24. ^ Archives 2003. In: Geneva International Film Festival. Retrieved February 12, 2020 (French).
  25. ↑ a b Unwanted Woman . In: Tahmineh Milāni official website . Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved on December 4, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Milani, Tahmineh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES تهمینه میلانی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Tabriz , Iran