Ebrahim Golestan

Directing

Ebrahim Golestan

Born — Died

1922-10-19 — 2023-08-22

Place of birth

Shiraz, Iran

Known for

Directing

Credits

36 titles

Ebrahim Golestan (Taghavi Shirazi) (also spelt Ibrahim Golestan, Persian: ابراهیم گلستان‎‎), (born October 19, 1922 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has lived in Sussex, United Kingdom, since 1975. He was closely associated with the controversial and eminent Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad until her death, whom he met at his studio in 1958. He is said to have inspired her to live more independently.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

1960s · 6 titles

Behind the camera

The House Is Black poster
7.5

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

The House Is Black

1963

Courtship poster
10.0

Ebrahim Golestan's contribution to an anthology film about the rites of betrothal in four separate countries.

Courtship

1961

The Brick and the Mirror poster
8.1

Hashem is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji, try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him.

The Brick and the Mirror

1966

The Brick and the Mirror poster
8.1

Hashem is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji, try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him.

The Brick and the Mirror

1966

The Brick and the Mirror poster
8.1

Hashem is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji, try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him.

The Brick and the Mirror

1966

The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries poster
7.0

A poor rural farmer unearths an ancient burial chamber loaded with gold artifacts on his arid land, which plunges him into a deep descent of greed and madness. As his growing obsession consumes him, the overwhelming chaos impacts everyone around him.

The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries

1974

The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries poster
7.0

A poor rural farmer unearths an ancient burial chamber loaded with gold artifacts on his arid land, which plunges him into a deep descent of greed and madness. As his growing obsession consumes him, the overwhelming chaos impacts everyone around him.

The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries

1974

The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries poster
7.0

A poor rural farmer unearths an ancient burial chamber loaded with gold artifacts on his arid land, which plunges him into a deep descent of greed and madness. As his growing obsession consumes him, the overwhelming chaos impacts everyone around him.

The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries

1974

A Fire poster
7.4

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), formed upon nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, employed film systematically, producing many films on oil and petrochemical subjects. It also made films depicting Iran's progress and modernization, highlighting the role of the Shah and NIOC in that direction. Under its auspices, Ebrahim Golestan directed A FIRE (1961), a highly visual treatment of a seventy-day oil well fire in the Khuzestan region of southwestern Iran. This film was edited by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad and won two awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1961.

A Fire

1961

A Fire poster
7.4

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), formed upon nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, employed film systematically, producing many films on oil and petrochemical subjects. It also made films depicting Iran's progress and modernization, highlighting the role of the Shah and NIOC in that direction. Under its auspices, Ebrahim Golestan directed A FIRE (1961), a highly visual treatment of a seventy-day oil well fire in the Khuzestan region of southwestern Iran. This film was edited by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad and won two awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1961.

A Fire

1961

A Fire poster
7.4

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), formed upon nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, employed film systematically, producing many films on oil and petrochemical subjects. It also made films depicting Iran's progress and modernization, highlighting the role of the Shah and NIOC in that direction. Under its auspices, Ebrahim Golestan directed A FIRE (1961), a highly visual treatment of a seventy-day oil well fire in the Khuzestan region of southwestern Iran. This film was edited by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad and won two awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1961.

A Fire

1961

The Crown Jewels of Iran poster
5.2

The Crown Jewels of Iran is a 1965 film commissioned and then banned by the Shah’s cultural ministry, featuring dazzling edits and camera movements and a charged narration assaulting economic disparities.

The Crown Jewels of Iran

1965

The Crown Jewels of Iran poster
5.2

The Crown Jewels of Iran is a 1965 film commissioned and then banned by the Shah’s cultural ministry, featuring dazzling edits and camera movements and a charged narration assaulting economic disparities.

The Crown Jewels of Iran

1965

No artwork available
NR

Abadan, in the vastness of the oil areas of southern Iran...

Water and Fire

1962

The House of God poster
NR

A documentary on Hajj pilgrimage.

The House of God

1966

Harvest and Seed poster
9.0

The banned and unseen Harvest and Seed is a sardonic look at the conditions of a poverty-stricken Iranian village after the so-called agrarian reforms of the early 1960s, which amounted to a corrupt land grab rather than an equitable redistribution of wealth. This film recorded in village in south of fars, Shiraz, Esmaeel abad

Harvest and Seed

1965

Harvest and Seed poster
9.0

The banned and unseen Harvest and Seed is a sardonic look at the conditions of a poverty-stricken Iranian village after the so-called agrarian reforms of the early 1960s, which amounted to a corrupt land grab rather than an equitable redistribution of wealth. This film recorded in village in south of fars, Shiraz, Esmaeel abad

Harvest and Seed

1965

Wave, Coral and Rock poster
7.0

A documentary about the oil pipe installation in Khark, Iran in 1962.

Wave, Coral and Rock

1962

Wave, Coral and Rock poster
7.0

A documentary about the oil pipe installation in Khark, Iran in 1962.

Wave, Coral and Rock

1962

The Hills of Marlik poster
6.0

This is a short documentary about Marlik hills and the archaeology's explorations there. But also it is about life, art, and the hope for a better tomorrow.

The Hills of Marlik

1964

The Hills of Marlik poster
6.0

This is a short documentary about Marlik hills and the archaeology's explorations there. But also it is about life, art, and the hope for a better tomorrow.

The Hills of Marlik

1964

Kharab-abad poster
NR

Short documentary by Ebrahim Golestan

Kharab-abad

1966