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Pedram Pour-Amiri

Iranian film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ111221787 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pedram Pour-Amiri (born 1994) is an Iranian screenwriter and director. He has been nominated for the Crystal Simorgh three times.

Pour-Amiri and Hossein Amiri Domari are credited as "the youngest directors of Iranian cinema", producing their first film when they were 23.

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The public source identifies “Pedram Pour-Amiri” as iranian film director. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pedram, Pour-Amiri and Iranian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pedram, Pour-Amiri and Iranian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111221787. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pedram Pour-Amiri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.