Puran Derakhshandeh

Pouran Derakhshandeh was born in Kermanshah on 27 March 1951. A graduate in directing from the Tehran College of Television and Cinema in 1975, she made documentaries for Kermanshah television, then for Tehran television, on the plague in Kurdistan, handicrafts, factory closures and drugs. She moved on to feature films in 1986 and became one of the most prominent women directors in her country, attached to subjects that its cinema leaves aside: deafness, mistreated childhood, AIDS, Down syndrome, violence against girls.

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• CinemaLittle Bird of Happinessپرنده کوچک خوشبختیPuran Derakhshandeh · 1988Cinema