Born in 1976, in Tehran, he graduated in Theatre at Tehran University, faculty of Fine Arts. He has also a M.A. in Scriptwriting from Tarbiat Modares University. He wrote several short stories, including "Private life" and "Closeness of God". Later, he made numerous short films, such as "the Devil", "The Silence", "Simple logic of the incident"," Hasty narration of a simple story with a happy ending", and " A song for the ghosts of the mountains", and also a number of documentaries, including "The cold season" and "3rd section". In 2000, he directed his first semi-feature film, "The scarlet wisdom". His first feature film, "Barefoot in paradise", won two awards in first features competition in Fajr Festival and also was selected as the best spiritual film.
 

 Barefoot in paradise
DIRECTOR: Bahram Tavakoli
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME :83'
FORMAT: 35mm
SCRIPT WRITER: Bahram Tavakoli
PHOTOGRAPHER : Hamid Khozou'ee Abyaneh
EDITOR: Bahram Dehghani
SOUND: Hassan Zahedi, Dariush Sadegh Pour
SOUND MIXER: Seyed Mahmoud Mousavi Nejad
MUSIC: Ali Samad Pour
PRODUCER: Art Center, Farabi Cinema Foundation, Habibollah Kaseh Saz
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: Yah'ya, a young theologian, helps irremediable paitents, who are kept in quarantine and suffer not only physically but also mentally.


CAST: Amin Tarokh, Hooman Seyedi, Afshin Hashemi, Negar Javaherian, Fahimeh Rastkar …
 

 Simple logic of the incident
DIRECTOR: Bahram Tavakoli
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME: 25'
FORMAT: DV cam
SCRIPT WRITER: Bahram Tavakoli
PHOTOGRAPHER: Mas'oud Salami
EDITOR: Bahram Dehghani
SOUND: Behrooz Shahamat
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IYCS ( Tehran), Sana Art and Cultural Institute
DATE OF PRO: 2004
SYNOPSIS: A chain of events in a woman's life: her divorce, her child's custody and …
 

 A song for the ghosts of the mountains
DIRECTOR: Bahram Tavakoli
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME : 16'
FORMAT: 35mm
SCRIPT WRITER: Bahram Tavakoli
PHOTOGRAPHER : Touraj Aslani
EDITOR: Alireza Amini, Hossein Rashid ghamat
SOUND: Behrooz Shahamat
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IYCS ( Tehran), Sana Art and Cultural Institute
DATE OF PRO: 1999
SYNOPSIS: A look at folkloric Kurdish music: A young boy reviews his grandfather's memories.

 

 Hasty narration of a simple story with a happy ending
DIRECTOR: Bahram Tavakoli
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME: 17'
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Bahram Tavakoli
PHOTOGRAPHER: Mas'oud Salami
EDITOR: Bahram Dehghani
SOUND: Hossein Ghourchian
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IYCS
DATE OF PRO: 2004- 2005
SYNOPSIS: The story of a woman who gets involved in an incident unwillingly.