Khosrow Sinai

Khosrow Sinai (Persian: خسرو سینایی‎, born 19 January 1941 in Sari, Iran) is an Iranian film director.[1] His works are typically social documentaries. He was the first Iranian film director to win an international prize after the Islamic revolution in Iran. He is also known as an Iranian scholar and has been awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Khosrow Sinai
Born (1941-01-19) January 19, 1941
Sari, Iran
OccupationFilm director, Screenwriter, music composer
Spouse(s)Gizella Varga Sinai (1967–present),
Farah Ossouli (1975–present)
Children4

Biography

Khosrow Sinai was born in 1941 in Iran.[1] He graduated in 1958 from Alborz High School in Tehran, and then went to Austria for further education. He spent four years studying Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and three years study in music composition at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He graduated in music education from the Vienna Music Conservatory. Finally he graduated as cinema and television director (main study) and screenplay writing (subsidiary study) from Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (with honors).

In 1963 he also published a poetry collection Muds Blisters.

After these years of study he returned to Iran in 1967 and worked in the Ministry of Culture and Arts (till 1972), and as instructor in various universities in the fields of screenplay writing and documentary film until 1992.

He also worked in National Iranian Television (now called Seda o Sima) as producer, screenplay writer, director, and editor making about 100 short films, documentaries, and features. He is best known for his Avant-garde documentaries and also his unique style in docu-drama. He has been a juror in several national and foreign film festivals.

Personal life

Sinai lives with his two wives, Gizella Varga Sinai, and Farah Ossouli, both painters.[2] His three daughters are artists, and his one son is a scientist.[2]

Filmography

"Arus-e Atash", (The Bride of Fire) was one of his most successful films in box office and won the people's choice award, and best screenplay at the 18th Fajr Film Festival.[3] in addition to winning the best actor a Crystal Globe nomination at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Filmography of Khosrow Sinai
Year Title Role Notes
1979 Long live (Persian: زنده باد, Zendeh bad)
1980 Viva ...! award winner in Karlovy Vary Film Festival
1983 The Inner Beast (Persian: هیولای درون, Hayula-ye darun) Director 2nd Fajr Festival as the best director
1983 The Lost Requiem (oryg. title: Marsiye-ye gomshode, مرثیه گمشده) documentary about the Poles who found refuge in Iran during World War II, after being forcibly taken by the Soviet regime to Soviet labor camps in Siberia.[1][4]
1987 Going astray... (oryg. Persian title: Yar dar khaneh..., ...یار در خانه, meaning "A friend at Home")
1990 In the Alleys of Love presented at the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival[5]
1997 Autumn Alley documentary/fiction, shown at the IDFA Film Festival - Amsterdam
1999 The Bride of Fire award-winning in several national and foreign festivals, about wedding customs and the tradition of compulsory marriage in the tribes of southern Iran.[1]
2005 Talking with a Shadow (Persian: Goftogu ba sayeh گفت و گو با سایه) A documentary-drama film about Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951).[1]
2005 The Carpet, the Horse, the Turkoman (Persian: فرش، اسب، ترکمن, Farsh, asb, Torkaman)
2006 The Desert of Blood (Persian: کویر خون, Kawir-e khun)
2014 Rainbow Island (Persian: جزیره رنگین, Jazire-ye rangin)

Published books and screenplays
  • The Man in White
  • The Artists of a Bloodshedding Era
  • The Bride of Fire (Film Script)
  • The Post-communist Cinema (translated from English).
  • The Lost Requiem
  • Translation from German: My Journey and Adventures in Iran, a book by Ármin Vámbéry (1863).

He has also written and translated numerous essays about cinema and other fine arts.

See also

References
  1. "Khosrow Sinai: A Retrospective". Financial Tribune. 18 August 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  2. Kav, Fatemeh; i (14 January 2011). "A family affair". Mashallah News. Retrieved 13 December 2019. their dad, film maker Khosrow Sinai, and his two wives, Farah Ossouli and Gizella Varga-Sinai,
  3. "Fajr 18th".
  4. "تقدیر از مهتاب کرامتی در پاریس" [Appreciation of Moonlight Kramati in Paris]. BBCPersian.com (in Persian). 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  5. "Festival de Cannes: In the Alleys of Love". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
  • Official website
  • Michaël Abescassis, Impressions of an Auteur, Tehran Today: Talking with Iranian Director Khosrow Sinai, Bright Lights Film Journal, May 2009, .
  • Ryszard Antolak, The Lost Requiem of Khosrow Sinai, Persian Journal, 25 November 2007, .
    The Lost Requiem: Khosrow Sinai's priceless Iranian and Polish historical document, The Iranian, 26 November 2007, .
  • Khosrow Sinai, The passing of the Polish through Iran (Gozar-e Lahestāni-hā az Iran), in Persian, Jadid Online, 28 May 2009, (Persian), (English).
    An audio slideshow by Shokā Sahrā'i (with English subtitles): (7 min 46 sec).
  • An extended interview with Kh. Sinai, his biography, list of books, in Persian (artebox.ir)

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