My Name Is Negahdar Jamali And I Make Westerns
All Films • 1h 4m
من نگهدار جمالی، وسترن میسازم
Directed by Kamran Heidari • 2012 • Iran
“My name is John Ford and I make Westerns” this is how John Ford introduced himself at the American Film Directors’ Association gathering. Negahdar Jamali, an Iranian from Shiraz introduced himself the same way when Kamran Heidari first met him without knowing John Ford that well: “My name is Negahdar Jamali and I make Westerns”, he introduced himself with self-confidence and without any weakness in his statement; not in the Monument Valley or in the Grand Canyon but in Shiraz and the deserts surrounding the city. He has been making Western films continuously for the past 35 years under hard conditions, and this film is about the struggle with his family, friends, society, and others to make what he likes the most in his life “Western Movies”.
Up Next in All Films
-
Narrow Red Line
خط باریک قرمز
Directed by Farzad Khoshdast • 2020 • Iran
In a bleak Iranian Juvenile Rehabilitation and Correction Centre, a group of teenage delinquents and juvenile defenders decide to put on a stage show that will allow them to leave the prison for a day. With the help of professional actors F... -
Nasoot
ناسوت
Directed by Shahin Parhami • 1997 • Canada
A poetic meditation on the death of three Iranian refugees who committed suicide in Ottawa in the late 1990’s.
Evoking the power of memory and history, this film is about dispossession, exile and alienation caused by war and displacement. -
Nasseredin Shah and his 84 Wives
null
Directed by Beate Petersen • 2011 • Norway
In 1842 the 11-year-old heir to the Persian throne received a camera from Queen Victoria of England. In the following decades, he documented his life, revealing to the public eye what it was never supposed to see.
“Nasseredin Shah and his 84 Wives” ...
