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Shabnam Toloui

Shabnam Toloui

Acting

Biography

Shabnam Toloui is known for Dust, flower, flame (2016), Women Without Men (2009) and The Day I Became a Woman (2000).

Known For

Women Without Men
6.3

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.

Women Without Men

2009
The Siren
5.8

November 1980. Southern Iran. We are at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. Abadan, the capital of the Iranian petrol industry resists the repeated assaults of the Iraqi army, but is soon under full siege. Omid, a 14-year-old boy, has stayed back in the city, with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to come back from the frontline. Along with Omid, we discover several other uncommon characters, each one having stayed for a personal reason. Each one resisting in his own way. But as the Iraqi siege of the city hardens, Omid has to quickly find a way to save those he loves.

The Siren

2023
The Day I Became a Woman
6.1

A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could never get.

The Day I Became a Woman

2000
A House Built on Water
7.5

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.

A House Built on Water

2002
Red Rose
4.9

A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in this fascinating drama that blends scripted scenes with on-the-ground footage from Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution.

Red Rose

2014
Dust Flower Flame
N/A

Tahirih Qurrat al-Ayn was first Iranian women right activist, Bab-i fighter ,theologian,poet. Tahirih was a woman of letters who lived in the nineteenth-century. Her name is synonymous with the emancipation of women and social justice and her life has inspired generations of women ever since, particularly Iranian women’s right movements.Since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran forbids any literature or discourse that portrays Tahirih in a positive light. Her name has been removed from the latest editions of history books published in Iran.

Dust Flower Flame

Chocolate
N/A

Famous actor Amin Hayaei has an accident with a poor young man named Mahmoud. Mahmoud's sister's husband Shapour convinces him to pretend that his back was injured in an accident while in reality Mahmoud's back was injured in the Iran-Iraq war and is unable to walk so that they can recover their financial situation by receiving damages. and organize

Chocolate

2004
To Be or Not to Be
6.6

A girl has heart disease and looks for a heart transplant.

To Be or Not to Be

1998
Mitra
6.0

“37 years after her daughter Mitra was executed in Iran and she fled her home country, Haleh leads a successful life as a renowned academic in the Netherlands. Her peaceful existence is shaken by the arrival of a woman she believes may be the traitor responsible for Mitra’s death.”

Mitra

2021
One Thousand and One Hundred
N/A

Set against the backdrop of the Woman Life Freedom movement in Iran, the film follows the harrowing journey of a woman who confronts sexual abuse and is coerced into making a false confession. The narrative unfolds within the context of the challenges faced by women striving for freedom and equality in Iran.

One Thousand and One Hundred

2024