---
name: "Homayun Payvar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/homayun-payvar"
fi1m_id: "homayun-payvar"
imdb_id: "nm0668537"
tmdb_id: 554587
wikidata_id: "Q11877041"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "1 January 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:16:37.579573+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."
---

# Homayun Payvar

## Identity

Homayun Payvar

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/homayun-payvar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** homayun-payvar
- **IMDb ID:** nm0668537
- **TMDB ID:** 554587
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11877041
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11877041, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668537/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/554587

Cinematographer. Born 1 January 1944 in Tehran.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 1 January 1944, Tehran
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11877041, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668537/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/554587

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Taste of Cherry*](https://film.one/film/taste-of-cherry.md) (86)

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## Biography

Homayun Payvar is an Iranian cinematographer. Born in Tehran in 1944, he has worked on numerous Iranian films since the 1980s.

He is best known for his cinematography on Abbas Kiarostami's *Taste of Cherry* (1997), which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and *Life, and Nothing More…* (1992). Other credits include *Rings* (1986) and *What's the Time in Your World?* (2014).

*Sources: imdb.com, wikidata.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Taste of Cherry* (1997), Fi1m 86, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/taste-of-cherry.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Suddenly a Tree* (2019), Director of Photography
- *What's the Time In Your World?* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Daughters of the Sun* (2004), Director of Photography
- *Chaplin Today: The Kid* (2003), Camera Operator
- *Looking For Shahrzad* (2002), Cinematography
- *Seven Acts* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Taste of Cherry* (1997), Director of Photography — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/taste-of-cherry.md)
- *The Survivors* (1996), Cinematography
- *Life, and Nothing More…* (1992), Director of Photography
- *First Graders* (1984), Director of Photography
- *Tiling* (1977), Cinematography
- *Road* (1972), Sound

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