Shabnam Tolouei ( شبنم طلوعی ) is an Iranian actress, theatre director, and playwright. She has studied in the field of filmmaking in Tehran, at Bagh-Ferdos Film & Culture School and has been acting on stage since 1993. She won Best Actress twice in the 14th and 22nd International Fajr International Theatre Festival in Iran (1996 and 2004). Some of her most recent film appearances include roles in The Day I Became a Woman (2000), A House Built on Water (2003) and Goli Baraye Maryam (2004), but s
...he is mostly known for her starring role as Munis in the 2009 Venice Festival Silver Lion award-winning Iranian film Women Without Men (2009) by Shirin Neshat. Shabnam Tolouei also played in Sepideh Farsi feature film Red Rose (2014) nominated for the Best Feature award at Chicago International Film festival 2014. She also played in a series called No Comment by Mehdi Mazloomi and another one titled Neyestan (Land of Reeds) by Mohammad Mokhtari.Shabnam Tolouei has been a Actor in some movies:
To Be or Not to Be is about that 'To Be or Not to Be' is the story of Anik Avanessian, a young woman suffering from a cardiac insufficiency that has caused her health to deteriorate to the point where she can no longer walk or speak without difficulty. With time running out, Anik is desperate for a heart transplant, but with her name just one on a list of 200, the chances of finding a suitable heart become increasingly unlikely. Anik's future rests in her ability, with her doctor, to convince the family of a brain-dead man to release their loved one's heart, so that it might live on in her. When it transpires that the man is the son of a disreputable criminal family, things go from bad to worse. A suspenseful tale of a woman doing her best to overcome the unimaginable, this film delivers an emotional punch. In this film Shabnam Tolouei collaborates with Asal Badiee, Maryam Boubani, Chakameh Chamanmah, Reza Fayyazi, Farhad Sharifi, Hossein Ilbeigi, Noor Ali Lotfi, Lorik Minassian, Yadollah Teymouri, Nooredin Alami, Bita Baadraan, Katayoon Jahangiri, Hasan Kakhi, Mehrdad Falahatgar, Kianoush Ayari, Parviz Malek Zadeh, Ahmad Ahmadii, Masoud Behnam, Hassan Zahedi, Zohreh Mojabi, Jamal Hashemi, Mehdi Habibipur, Rahele Parvinnia, Shabnam Jafroodi, Soheila Tilavi, Reza Semsari, Ali Nasiri, Hossein Roozbeh.
The Day I Became a Woman is about that The Day I Became a Woman comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. Episode one, entitled 'Havva' concerns a young girl on the morning of her ninth birthday. Against her better wishes, she is forced to stay home, away from her best friend who has asked her to play with him, due to her mother and grandmother's proclamation that she is now a woman. Learning she was born at noon, the young girl requests one more hour to do what she wishes so she can be a girl one last time. Episode two, entitled 'Ahoo', follows a young woman who is being pursued on horseback by her stern husband, whom she is fleeing on bicycle in the midst of a women's biking race. Soon, her in-laws and relatives are also pursuing her, and she must make a quick decision about whether or not to return to family life. The final episode, called 'Houra', follows an elderly woman who enlists the help of a young boy and his friends to take her on a shopping spree, where she intends to buy all of the things she has ever wanted out of life. In this film Shabnam Tolouei collaborates with Marzieh Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Ahmadi, Moharram Zeinalzadeh, Behrouz Shahamat, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Abbas Rastegarpour, Ebrahim Ghafouri, Shahrzad Pouya, Maysam Makhmalbaf, Akbar Meshkini, Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand, Norieh Mahigiran, Azizeh Sedighi, Badr Iravani.
A House on Water is about that Dr. Sepidbakht runs over an angel one night while driving, and his fingers are deeply wounded after touching the angel. The next day at the hospital, the nurse informs him that a young unconscious boy has been brought to their ward by mistake. Dr. Sepidbakht has an encounter with Ms. Taleghani, one of his old colleagues with whom he used to have a romantic affair. Ms. Taleghani, who had left the hospital for a cancer treatment, complains about Dr. Sepidbakht's behavior. He confesses that he has felt weird after seeing the boy who knows the entire Quran by heart. His secretary, Jaleh, also complains to him about their past involvement and that she can never bear a child but he ignores her. He goes to visit his father at the retirement home and a sad conflict happens between them... Dr. Sepedbakht informs his secretary that the passengers of a white Peykan have been following him for a while and he asks her for an address to have a burglar alarm installed. His son, Mani, who has been living abroad for 15 years, comes back to Tehran, but gets arrested at the airport for carrying drugs. Dr. Sepidbakht manages to bail him out but at midnight he realizes that his son is injecting himself with drugs. He decides to take him to clinic to quit but Mani escapes the clinic. While searching for his son, he accidentally sees Jaleh's father and finds out that she has not been in contact with them for a long time, and is living alone. Jaleh is in contact with Dr. Sepidbakht's pursuers and sends them to the person who installed his alarm and get the code from him. At the hospital, the doctor sees a colored string and follows it to the young boy's room. The boy wakes up and asks Sepidbakht to take him away. At the house, the boy confesses that he first started to read Quran to attract others' attention but then he started to enjoy it and memorized all of it out of passion. However, when his parents started taking him to different places and showing him off, he got scared and passed out. During the night, the doctor wakes up from the sound of the alarm and sees some people dressed in black. He hides the boy in the closet and goes downstairs, but is attacked and killed by the intruders. The boy approaches him, takes his head in his hands and says: "I am with you." In this film Shabnam Tolouei collaborates with Bita Farahi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Hediyeh Tehrani, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Mehran Rajabi, Reza Kianian, Roya Nonahali, Behnaz Jafari, Mohsen Ghazi Moradi, Mahmoud Kalari, Bahman Farmanara, Hossein Kasbian, Parviz Abnar, Abbas Ganjavi, Farzam Manteghi, Ahmad Pejman, Jalal Moayerian, Zhila Mehrjui, Amir Ghaffar Manesh, Mitra Mahaseni.
Sharareh is about that During A couple's wedding,they have heard are a shocked news. The sister of a new bridegroom, along with her little daughter, "Sharareh", are arrested for murder. The young girl is constantly accusing that "I have killed my father "and .. In this film Shabnam Tolouei collaborates with Laleh Eskandari, Gholamreza Tabatabai, Roya Teymourian, Sorush Sehhat, Enayat Bakhshi, Habib Dehghan Nasab, Reza Radmanesh, Siamak Shayeghi, Kourosh Tahami, Bahram Dehghan, Karen Homayounfar, Nikoo Kheradmand, Arash Moayerian, Mahtaj Nojoomi, Javad Moghaddas, Taghi Aligholizadeh, Behnaz Nazi, Ali Nikraftar, Bahman Zonoozi, Behrooz Toorani.
A Notebook from Heaven is about that Azar needs to make a strange decision amidst the difficult and complex circumstances she is facing…. In this film Shabnam Tolouei collaborates with Ashkan Khatibi, Poopak Goldarre, Roya Teymourian, Parvaneh Ahmadi, Hossein Parastar, Majid Moshiri, Mina Jafar Zadeh, Amir Aghaei, Parviz Sheikh Tadi, Saeed Saadi, Kourosh Tahami, Reza Tavakoli, Saeed Malekan, Parviz Malek Zadeh, Alireza Kohan Deiri, Abolfazl Shah Karam, Mohsen Roshan, Nobar Ghanbarian, Nahid Moslemi, Alireza Naeini, Kamal Mirkarimi, Lida Abbasi, Mojdeh Ghajarieh, Mehdi Ghafourian, Omid Niaz, Soosan Salimi, Gholamreza Arefnejad, Sadegh Tavakoli, Masoomeh Ebadi, Akhtar Zand, Soren Mehrabian, Mahmoud Hendiani, Babak Chaghayi, Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh, Khodadad Majlesi, Jamshid Khandan, Hassan Nouri.
Women without Men is about that 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. In this film Shabnam Tolouei collaborates with Shirin Neshat, Mina Ghoreishi, Ahmad Hamed, Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shoja Azari, Bijan Daneshmand, Martin Gschlacht, Shahbaz Noshir, Saeed Oveysi, Philippe Bober, Jerome De Noirmont, Barbara Gladstone, Peter Hermann, Barbara Habe, Oleg Kokhan, Susanne Marian, Heirich Mis, Erwin M. Schimdt, Andreas Schreitmuller, Joerg E.Schweizer, Holger Stern, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Isabell Wiegand, George Cragg, Patrick Lambertz, Christof Schertenleib, Julia Wiedwald, Orsolya Toth, Navid Navid, Essa Zahir, Tahmoures Tehrani, Abbas Bakhtiari, Mehdi Moinzadeh, Farhad Payar, Shahrnoush Parsipour, Mitra Zahedi, Mina Azarian, Nader Farman, Youssef Nabil, Natasha Chudyk, Aziz Hattab, Soussan Azarin, Fadma Hammou Maadini, Fouad Saad Allah, Khalid Elwadi, Steven Henry Madoff, Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Chocolate is about that Amin who is a famous actor, appears to be somehow far from his popularity, particularly because his emotional issues cause him to work less. But he tries hard to keep himself as a well-known actor. His old friend Jahan is looking after him. The last time Amin refers to Jahan is when he has an accident with a young cyclist. Amin takes him to a hospital as soon as possible but he can not afford the costs so he and Jahan decide to change the police report such that he has no fault in the accident. But events come up somehow differently and their friendship makes the situation in a way that affects their lives. In this film Shabnam Tolouei collaborates with Amin Hayaei, Chakameh Chamanmah, Sirous Gorjestani, Afarin Obeisi, Kamran Ghadakchian, Saleh Mirza Aghaie, Farid Mostafavi, Faraj Heidari, Fardin Khalatbari, Bahman Heidari, Rahim Noroozi, Majid Shahryari, Mohammad Hassan Najm, Mohammad Haghighi, Mohammad Karimi, Manouchehr Alipour, Ali Nikraftar, Mozhgan Rabbani, Afshin Sherkat, Ayda Tebyanian, Golshan Pir Khanghah, Abdollah Esfandiari, Soodabe Khosravi, Nastaran Divsalar.
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