# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bahman-farmanara
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:30:45.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bahman-farmanara"
name: "Bahman Farmanara"
slug: "bahman-farmanara"
description: "Bahman Farmanara is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known for his films Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine (2000), A House Built on Water (2001), and A Little Kiss (2005). Bahman Farmanara is the second son of a family of four brothers and one sister. The family business was Textile and he was the only son who did not join the company and went off to the United Kingdom and later on to the United States to study acting and directing. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in Cinema in 1966. After returning to Iran and doing military service, he joined the National Iranian Radio and Television."
tagline: "Iranian film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bahman_Farmanara.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1942-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.07
  momentum:             6.549763033175356
  historical:           6.725712
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/bahman.farmanara/"
    handle:    "bahman.farmanara"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267715/"
    handle:    "nm0267715"
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%87%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "باهمان فارمانارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahman_Farmanara"
    title: "Bahman Farmanara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahman_Farman-Ara"
    title: "Bahman Farman-Ara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%87%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "بهمن فرمان‌آرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahman_Farmanara"
    title: "Bahman Farmanara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahman_Farmanara"
    title: "Bahman Farmanara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%81%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "بہمن فرمان آرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2749785"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump