Taqvaee, Nasser (born July 11, 1941, Abadan)

Nasser Taqvaee studied Literature at Tehran University’s Faculty of Literature.

Before the film industry, he was working in television and became popular as a series director.

He began working in the film industry as a member of the technical crew working on ‘Brick and Mirror’ (1965).

Taqvaee directed the film ‘Tranquility in the Presence of Others’ (1972) based on a story by Iranian writer Gholam Hossein Saedi for which he won the Best Film certificate of merit from the Venice International Film Festival.

In addition to directing movies, he has directed the series ‘My Uncle Napoleon’ (1975).

He was nominated for Best Director for ‘Captain Khorshid’ (1986) at the Fajr International Film Festival.

His ‘Unruled Paper’ (2001) won the Fajr Festival Crystal Simorgh for Best Director and the Iran Cinema Celebration’s Critics Choice award of Best Film.

Beside feature films, Taqvaee has made several documentary films.