Mania Akbari
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 22, 1974
- Birthplace
- Tehran, Iran
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mania Akbari is an Iranian film director. Akbari began her artistic career as a painter in 1991. She entered the world of cinema as a director of photography and later as an assistant director of documentaries. In 2002, she starred in Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten and in 2003 co-directed the documentary Crystal. In 2005 she wrote, directed and starred in her first feature film, 20 Fingers, winner of a prize at the Venice Film Festival digital film competition. In 2007, Akbari directed a sequel to Kiarostami's Ten entitled 10+4 (Dah Be Alaveh Chahar) in which she depicts her battle with cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mania Akbari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Three Ways of Returning 2026
Actor, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editor
How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish 2022
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Dear Elnaz 2020
Director, Editor
A Moon for My Father 2019
as Herself, Director, Writer
Life May Be 2014
as Self, Director, Writer
From Tehran to London 2013
as Roya, Director, Producer
Dancing Mania 2012
as Self
- In My Country Men Have Breasts
In My Country Men Have Breasts 2012
as self, Director
One. Two. One 2011
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar) 2007
as herself, Director
- Cinema Iran
Cinema Iran 2005
as Self
20 Fingers 2004
as The Wife, Director, Writer
Ten 2002
as Driver
Credits from TMDB.