Tahmineh Milani
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| Born |
Tahmineh Milāni September 1, 1960 Osku, Iran |
| Occupation | Film director, Screen writer, Film producer, Architect |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Spouse(s) | Mohammad Nikbin |
| Children | Xhina |
| Relatives | Ahmad Milani (father) |
Tahmineh Milāni (Persian: تهمینه میلانی, born 1 September 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer. Milani was born 1960 in Osku, Iran. She is the wife of the Iranian actor and producer Mohammad Nikbin.
After graduating in architecture from the University of Science and Technology in Tehran Iran in 1986, she apprenticed as a script girl and an assistant director following a screen workshop in 1979.
Milani started her career as a movie director with Children of Divorce in 1989.
Feminist filmmaker Milani is known for touching controversial and sensitive issues, including women's rights and the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
The majority of Milani's films involve brave women who suffer under oppressive regimes. Her early films resembled fables, such as her 1990 offering Efsanye-e Ah (The Legend of a Sigh) which featured a character who, after failing as an author, befriends her sigh of despair. The sigh goes on to teach her of women with much larger problems in the world, yet still remain happy. Two years later, in Dige Che Khabar (What Did You Do Again?), Milani told the story of a young girl with the power to change her family simply by talking to herself. Iranian censors fought against the film, instructing her to replace the female lead with a young boy instead. Hard-line conservatives accused Milani of encouraging women to revolt against the current system. She deflected the criticisms, insisting that the men were merely scared of seeing their own wives riot because of her films.
Milani has received admirations and prizes for her movies especially for Two Women and "The 5th Reaction".
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