[custom_adv] Partovi was born in Rasht. After studying theater arts in school he wrote mainly scripts for TV series. In 1988 he made his feature film debut with "Golnar". His 2007 film "Cafe Transit", which received a special mention at Mar del Plata film festival, was selected by Iran as its candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [custom_adv] He has written screenplays for other directors, most notably Jafar Panahi's The Circle. In 2013 he acted in and co-directed "Close Curtain" with Panahi. Partovi has trained and supported many Iranian artists and filmmakers, most notably Bahman Ghobadi. [custom_adv] Partovi, one of the "most influential filmmakers of children's cinema", died in Tehran's Dey hospital aged 64, the Farabi Foundation said in a message of condolence on its website. [custom_adv] He won four scriptwriting awards from Tehran's Fajr Festival, the most among his peers. He also co-wrote the script for Majidi's 2015 epic Muhammad, the most expensive film in the history of cinema. [custom_adv] Partovi's later film Cafe Transit, which tells the story of a widow who decides to run her late husband's truck-stop restaurant, was selected to represent at the Oscars in 2007. In 2013, Panahi and Partovi won the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the Berlin film festival for Parde (Closed Curtain), made secretly in defiance of a ban by the Tehran authorities. [custom_adv] The pandemic that first broke out mid-February has claimed the lives of many prominent people from the art and film industry. Before Partovi, filmmakers Kiomars Derambakhsh in April, Khosro Sinai in August, and Akber Alemi also died of the virus. [custom_adv] He won four scriptwriting awards from Tehran's Fajr Festival, the most among his peers. He also co-wrote the script for Majidi's 2015 epic Muhammad, the most expensive film in the history of cinema. [custom_adv] Partovi was born in Rasht. After studying theater arts in school he wrote mainly scripts for TV series. In 1988 he made his feature film debut with "Golnar". His 2007 film "Cafe Transit", which received a special mention at Mar del Plata film festival, was selected by Iran as its candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [custom_adv] He has written screenplays for other directors, most notably Jafar Panahi's The Circle. In 2013 he acted in and co-directed "Close Curtain" with Panahi. Partovi has trained and supported many Iranian artists and filmmakers, most notably Bahman Ghobadi.
