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Biography
Rafi Pitts (Persian: رفیع پیتز, born 1967) is an Iranian film director.
Career
Pitts was born in Mashad, Iran. Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He came to England (his father is English) in 1981 during the Iran Iraq war. He graduated in 1991 from the Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Photography. His first short film, In Exile (1991) was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90's Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard.
Educated in France and England, Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema, which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit.
In 1996 he had the opportunity to film in Iran and he was the first film director (in exile) to do so since the Revolution in 1979. His first feature Season Five (1997) was the first Franco-Iranian coproduction since the Revolution.In 2006, he was nominated for Golden Bear award of Berlin Film Festival for his film, It's Winter. His 2010 film The Hunter was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
His 2016 Film Soy Nero won the best film award at the 12th Bucharest International Film festival, in April 2016
Movies & TV shows
2016.
1 Movie
I Am Nero
2016
The border fence between Mexico and the United States is part of their lives; Mexican youths use it as a volleyball net on the beach, holding their own kind of international matches with their opposit...
2012.
1 Movie
Argo
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2012
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist comes up with a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
2011.
1 Movie
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
The film is a collection of one-minute short films created by 60 filmmakers from around the world on the theme of the death of cinema.
2010.
1 Movie
The Hunter
2010
In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are...
2006.
1 Movie
It's Winter
2006
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
2003.
1 Movie
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by night.
2001.
1 Movie
Sanam
2001
In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of his father causes an avalanche of problems. With the fam...
1997.
1 Movie
The Fifth Season
1997
The fight for power in an isolated village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between the feuding families is lost when an arranged marr...
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