Kamran Shirdel (1939) Studied architecture, design and film direction in Rome (Italy) and is a 1964 graduate of the famous film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia ( Rome-Italy).
After graduating, Shirdel returned to Iran and started directing documentaries for the Ministry of Culture and Art. Over the next three years he directed his most renown social documentaries; six films which frankly analyzed and revealed the darkest side of Irans economical boom and the apparent flashing society of petrol-dollars, with a deep social consciousness very familiar to Italian Neorealism school of cinema that has influenced him deeply. Shirdels furious documentaries and cinematic language were a bone of contention both under the Shah and following his exile, because they spoke up for the underprivileged and in doing so exposed and criticized bitterly the mechanism of power.
Because of the censorship the distribution and screening of nearly all his films were banned,
they were confiscated and he was expelled from the ministry and put on the black list.
Seven years after it was made and been censored, his famous The Night It Rained was selected to participate as the only Iranian entry in The Third Edition of Tehran International Film Festival where it was acclaimed by the Intl jurors and got the Grand Prix (1974) but soon after the festival it was banned again and remained so { like his well known Womens Prison (1965), Qaleh ( Womens Quarter 1966) , Tehran is the capital of Iran (1967) and others}until after the revolution. His only feature film The Morning of The Fourth Day (1972) winner of many awards and mentioned in the list of the best 100 Iranian film ever, is a remake of J.L.Godards A Bout de Souffle.
Shirdel was unable to pursue his aim and interest in observing and analyzing the society and was forced to turn his creative and technical talent to the making of institutional films, a fertile production of highly praised industrial and educational films.
Kamran Shirdel is considered a father figure of Irans new cinema and documentary school of
filmmaking. He paved the way for social and critical documentary film in Iran which refused to be misused by presenting a politically documented and correct reflection of reality. Many famed
Iranian cineasts such as Abbas Kiarostami, Amir Naderi, Jafar Panahi, Rakhshan Banietemad,
M.R.Aslani, Mahvash Sheikholeslami, and others has been his pupils or worked with him during their formation years. Shirdels films are considered as the veritable references for the social documentary in Iran.
After the revolution all his censored and confiscated films were found, printed, subtitled and
released in Iran and film festivals around the world; Moscow, Krakow (Poland), Leipzig,Sweden,, Swiss,Paris, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England and U.S. Gaining acclamation
and many awards and detailed panoramas and retrospectives were dedicated to Kamran Shirdel,
his films and his career during the last 25 years.
Kamran Shirdel who is also the founder and director of The Kish Documentary Film Festival. This progressive festival was spent to years of board of president Khatami... Shirdel apart from directing and producing advertising and industrial films in his famous company Filmgrafic Co...
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