Behnaz Jafari
Acting
Biography
Behnaz Jafari was born in Tehran , Iran , in 1974, and has begun her cinematic activities since 1980. She has got her B.A. in Dramatic Literature from College of Art of Azad University in 2005. She won diploma of honor as best actress in a leading role for "The President's Cellphone" in the Thirtieth Fajr Film Festival.
Born: January 1, 1974
Place of Birth: Teheran, Iran
Known For
The Professional
It's a lot of money. A perfect map is needed to eliminate obstacles and achieve this wealth. A pure and complex map that requires a professional assassin. He is probably the smartest and most ruthless.
Once Upon a Time in Iran
It is the story of a family on the first of September 1941, which undergoes changes during the occupation of Iran by the Allies.
Terrestrial Verses
A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse.
7 Months Pregnant
Revenge may have irreversible consequences.
A House Built on Water
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
Tehran: City of Love
Three lonely people, each looking for love in their own ways. This is hard enough in any big city – never mind in Tehran, where individual freedoms can’t be taken for granted. In a sexy voice on the telephone, an overweight receptionist seduces men who wouldn’t look twice at her real ‘me’. A former bodybuilding champion now earns a living as a personal trainer. When he develops feelings for a promising young sportsman as a client; he drops everything else; even a very promising acting job for a well-known French director. A singer at religious funerals is dumped by his fiancée. He tries to find new purpose in life by retraining as a singer at weddings and parties. That’s a lot more attractive to women, his friend assures him.
The Engineer Child
The story of an orphan boy
3 Faces
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing encounters abound, but they soon discover that the local hospitality is rivaled by the desire to protect old traditions.
Blackboards
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
Yalda
Maryam accidentally killed her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced to relive the past.
Filmography
as (voice)
as Pari Sazgar
as pari
as Rana
as Mona
as Niloufar
as Behnaz Jafari
as Puran
as Farzaneh
as Maryam's friend (Social Activist)
as Rana
as Mali Khanom
as actrice
as Mehran's Wife
as as Narrator(voice)
as La'ya
as Mojgan Ahadi
as Seema
as Halaleh
as Monireh Jahed
as Forough