Khosrow Sinai Information

Khosrow Sinai (born January 18, 1940) director and playwright Childhood and Education He was born in Sari, one of the cities located at the side of the Mazandaran Sea. Sinai after leaving Sari for Tehran, the capital city, resided there to receive his diploma from the Alborz high school. Then from 1959 to 1963, he went to Austria to study in the Technical faculty in the field of architecture, and simultaneously he studied music composing in the music Academy and Dramatic Arts of Vienna. In 1966 he was graduated from the Vienna Music Conservatory and then after one year he completed his education in the field of cinema and television directing and playwriting from the Vienna Music Academy and Dramatic Arts. Khosrow within these years and from 1958 to 1967 was the supervisor of the department of accordion of Vienna conservatory. Professional Activities Sinai after returning to Iran in 1968, worked for five years in the Ministry of Culture and Art. He also started to cooperate with National T.V. from 1972 and this cooperation lasted up to 1975. From then on he has worked independently as a cinema activist. Sinai from 1992 Started to teach in the fields of cinema directing, playwriting, music of the film, the principles of documentary film making in various art faculties and institutions. In the report of Sinai’s, there are more than 100 films for cinema and short and long documentary films. He also along with working as a screenwriter and director, composes music for film and film editing. Some of his too works are as follows. Film for Cinema 1. Viva…, 1979 2. The Inner Monster, 1983 3. Beloved in the Home, 1985 4. In the Alleys of Love, 1990 5. The Bride of Fire, 2000 6. As a Tale, 2005 7. The Desert of Blood, 2006 8. The Colorful Island, 2014 Documentary Films 1. The Voices That becoming Antique, 1967 2. 25 Years Iran Art, 1968 3. Beyond the Tumult, 1967-68 4. A Land, A Day, A Road, 1969 5. Worshiping, 1970 6. The coldness of Iron, 1970 7. The Lost Elegy, 1970-1983 8. Today Tehran, the Images of a Town, 1977 9. The Yesterday Woman, the Today Woman, 1977 10. Iran Modern Painting, 1977 11. Journey in the History, 1985 12. The Aged Metropole, 1985 13. Boundary Line, 1991 14. The Last Ring of the Chain, 1991 15. Think to the Kind Mountain, 1993 16. The Story of Thousands Years Shortcoming, 1993 17. The winning project, 2004 18. Carpet, Horse and Turkman, 2005 19. The Witnesses of History, 2007 20. The History Narrators, 2009 A Selection of Short Films 1. Fishing, 1966 2. Son, Father, and Mother, 1970 3. Passive Verb, 1970 4. Children wandering in God’s orders and our conducts, 1972 5. Running Away, 1974 6. The Crossed out, 1977 7. The Iranian Family, 1977 8. Ten Phase to Expelling, 1979 The Portrait Films 1. Haj Mosavvar-ol-Molki, 1972 2. Hossein Yavari, 1973 3. Mr. Damavandi, 1974 4. Geezla, 1993 5. The Autumn Alley (a long fictional documentary film), 1996 6. Between the Shadow and Light, 2002 7. Crossing Through I don’t Know, 2002 8. The Songs of Silence, 2005 9. Chatting with the Shadow (a long fictional documentary film), 2005 Animation and Experimental Effort 1. A Biography 2. Two Solutions for a Problem (animation), 1973 3. Perhaps If… (puppetry), 1974 Musical Works Composing and performing music for film 1. I love Iran 2. The Inner Monster 3. The Beloved in the Home and… 4. In the Alleys of Love 5. Journey in the History 6. The Aged Metropole 7. The Last Ring of the Chain 8. The Thousands Years Story of a Short Coming 9. The Today Tehran, the Images of a Town 10. The Lost Elegy 11. Geezla 12. Between the Shadow and Light 13. The Songs of Silence 14. The Bride of Fire 15. As a Tale 16. Music for the Tale of Recorded Tape Under the Name of “Dawn Blooms” based on 26 stanzas of Parvin Dolat Abadi is poems (not published yet) Writings 1. Scenario of the painters of the Era of Blood, 2002 2. Scenario of the White Robe, 2003 3. Scenario of the Bride of Fire, 2004 4. The Dirty Retaliations (a collection of poems) published by Modern Art Gallery 5. The Melody of White Butterflies (a collection of poems) published by Amrood Publication Translations 1. Special Effects, an Image in cinema and television. Translated from English to Persian, 1988 2. The Post Communism Cinema (translation of some articles from English into Persian), 2009 3. The Great World Film Makers (selecting and Translating from English Texts), 2008 4. Sightseeing and My Adventures in Iran. Written by Armin Vámbéry; translated from German text (ready for publication)