This is a list of Iranian film directors representing various genres and periods of Iranian cinema.
A
Narges Abyar
Saber Abar
Ali Abbasi
Mostafa Abdollahi
Mohammad Ahmadi
Mania Akbari
Shahram Alidi
Reza Allamehzadeh
Cyrus Alvand
Mohsen Amiryoussefi
Kiarash Anvari
Abolfazl Attar
Reza Attaran
Kianoush Ayari
B
Reza Badiyi
Maziar Bahari
Ramin Bahrani
Parisa Bakhtavar
Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
Bahram Bayzai
Marzieh Boroumand
Shiva Boloorian
C
Henri Charr
D
Hajir Darioush
Masoud Dehnamaki
Pouran Derakhshandeh
E
Nader Ebrahimi
Tanaz Eshaghian
Matt Eskandari
F
Mitra Farahani
Asghar Farhadi
Bahman Farmanara
Mohammad Farokhmanesh
Hamid Farrokhnezhad
Forough Farrokhzad
Aryana Farshad
Sepideh Farsi
Hassan Fathi
Reza Fazeli
Sadaf Foroughi
G
Kamran Ghadakchian
Iraj Ghaderi
Shahyar Ghanbari
Tina Gharavi
Behrouz Gharibpour
Regis Ghezelbash
Bahman Ghobadi
Fereydun Gole
Ebrahim Golestan
H
Mani Haghighi
Hassan Hajgozar
Ali Hatami
Ebrahim Hatamikia
Manijeh Hekmat
Mohammad-Reza Honarmand
Robert Hossein
Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour
Hassan Hajgozar
J
Masoud Jafari Jozani
Abolfazl Jalili
Rambod Javan
Mehdi Jafari
Vahid Jalilvand
Nima Javidi
K
Sara Khaki
Abdolreza Kahani
Narges Kalhor
Fariborz Kamkari
Cyrus Kar
Varuzh Karim-Masihi
Niki Karimi
Nosrat Karimi
Maryam Keshavarz
Samuel Khachikian
Valiollah Khakdan
Loghman Khaledi
Abbas Kiarostami
Bahman Kiarostami
Masoud Kimiai
Parviz Kimiavi
Alexis Kouros
Esmail Koushan
Sadegh Karamyar
Mohammad Kart
L
Ali Limonadi
Gholamhussein Lotfi
M
Reza Mirkarimi
Majid Majidi
Hana Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Samira Makhmalbaf
Yassamin Maleknasr
Asghar Massombagi
Dariush Mehrjui
Marzieh Meshkini
Tahmineh Milani
Maziar Miri
Mehran Modiri
Mahnaz Mohammadi
Shahram Mokri
Granaz Moussavi
Rasoul Mollagholipour
Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh
Ali Mosaffa
Bahman Motamedian
Duraid Munajim
Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian
N
Amir Naderi
Shirin Neshat
Parviz Nouri
Mohammad Nourizad
Hossein Nuri
O
Ovanes Ohanian
P
Jafar Panahi
Kambuzia Partovi
Babak Payami
Rafi Pitts
Kiumars Poorahmad
Ali Pourtash
Tina Pakravan
R
Hossein Rajabian
Iraj Raminfar
Rouzbeh Rashidi
Amir Shahab Razavian
Shahla Riahi
Jamil Rostami
Mohammad Rasoulof
Saeed Roustayi
S
Hamid Samandarian
Houman Seyyedi
Hossein Shahabi
Parviz Shahbazi
Sohrab Shahid-Saless
Javad Shamaqdari
Siamak Shayeghi
Kamran Shirdel
Mohammad Shirvani
Khosrow Sinai
T
Kamal Tabrizi
Nasser Taghvaei
Hamid Tamjidi
Susan Taslimi
Farkhondeh Torabi
Y
Hassan Yektapanah
Z
Mona Zandi Haghighi
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