18 Facts About Hossein Nuri

Hossein Nuri is an Iranian painter, playwright and film director.

Hossein Nuri was born on the first of July 1954 in Mashhad, Iran.

Hossein Nuri lost his father at the age of three and, despite all the difficulties, his mother raised him along with his brother who was a year older than him.

Hossein Nuri showed his talent in painting in specialized painting classes at elementary school.

In 1972, Hossein Nuri wrote a play which was a political satire criticizing the system and defending human rights.

Hossein Nuri was tortured severely and after a series of harsh tortures, he lost the ability to move his hands and legs and his internal health started to deteriorate.

Hossein Nuri was sent to hospital as he was still under control.

Hossein Nuri continued painting by holding the brush with his mouth and uses a wheelchair.

Hossein Nuri accepted and she left her studies to live with Hossein Nuri in Torbat-e Jam.

In 2004, Hossein Nuri introduced his new style of painting in an exhibition he held in Paris.

Hossein Nuri directed several documentaries and television programs in the 80s and 90s.

Hossein Nuri was co-writer of the Saint Mary project of which a movie version was primarily released in theaters in 2000 and later the extended TV version was televised on multiple global networks and became a hit.

In 2019 Hossein Nuri wrote and directed the feature film My Arms Flew which was based on some actual events in his life.

Hossein Nuri has been a juror in multiple theater and film festivals.

Hossein Nuri was a jury member in the first edition of Cinema and Women Film Festival in Iran in 1995.

Hossein Nuri was a juror in Resistance International Film Festival in 2020 and a program director in Red Rock Film Festival in 2024.

In February 2006 during the protests against Jyllands-Posten cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, Hossein Nuri brought his aesthetic depiction of Virgin Mary in front of the Danish embassy in Tehran and expressed his protest in a peaceful way "to respond to ugliness with beauty" as he put it.

Hossein Nuri displayed the image and asked a question: This is our faith.