---
name: "Hengameh Panahi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hengameh-panahi"
fi1m_id: "hengameh-panahi"
imdb_id: "nm0659069"
tmdb_id: 55486
wikidata_id: "Q95913388"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "5 April 1956"
died: "5 November 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T02:29:28.492069+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hengameh Panahi

## Identity

Hengameh Panahi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hengameh-panahi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hengameh-panahi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0659069
- **TMDB ID:** 55486
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95913388
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95913388, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659069/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55486

Producer. Born 5 April 1956 in Iran. Died 5 November 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 5 April 1956, Iran
- **Died:** 5 November 2023
- **Active:** 1994–2023
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 writing, 2 producing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 77 (1), 2010s 78 (1), 2020s 63 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95913388, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659069/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55486

## Biography

Hengameh Panahi was a French-Iranian film producer and sales agent. Born in Tehran in 1956, she moved to Belgium at the age of twelve and later studied journalism and translation. She founded the international sales and production company Celluloid Dreams in Brussels in 1985 and relocated it to Paris in 1993.

Panahi was credited as a writer on Abbas Kiarostami’s *Through the Olive Trees* (1994). Through Celluloid Dreams she acted as producer or executive producer on films including *Paradise Now* (2005), *I’m Not There* (2007), *Funny Games* (2008), *Chicken with Plums* (2011), *Bone Tomahawk* (2015) and *Infinity Pool* (2023). She died in France on 5 November 2023.

*Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, variety.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Wrote (1)

- *Through the Olive Trees* (1994), Fi1m 77, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/through-the-olive-trees.md)

### Produced (2) — the average rests on these

- *Infinity Pool* (2023), Fi1m 63, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/infinity-pool.md)
- *Bone Tomahawk* (2015), Fi1m 78, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/bone-tomahawk.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Emilia Pérez* (2024), In Memory Of — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md)
- *Infinity Pool* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/infinity-pool.md)
- *Life* (2021), Thanks
- *A Woman's Name* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Emma* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Bone Tomahawk* (2015), Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/bone-tomahawk.md)
- *Brave Men's Blood* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Over Your Dead Body* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Chicken with Plums* (2011), Producer
- *Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen* (2009), Executive Producer
- *Yamagata Scream* (2009), Producer
- *Vincere* (2009), Co-Producer
- *The Countess* (2009), Co-Producer
- *Far North* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Funny Games* (2008), Producer
- *Mister Lonely* (2008), Producer
- *Young Yakuza* (2007), Producer
- *I'm Not There* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Savage Grace* (2007), Executive Producer
- *The Mourning Forest* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Son of Rambow* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Love for Sale* (2006), Producer
- *The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes* (2005), Producer
- *Paradise Now* (2005), Producer
- *The World* (2004), Producer
- *All Tomorrow's Parties* (2003), Producer
- *Novo* (2002), Producer
- *Unknown Pleasures* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Fast Food Fast Women* (2000), Producer
- *Djomeh* (2000), Associate Producer
- *Tokyo Eyes* (1998), Producer
- *Through the Olive Trees* (1994), Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/through-the-olive-trees.md)
- *Faust* (1994), Executive Producer

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