Nemat Haqiqi died of a heart attack in April 2010. He was 71 years old.
The theater was officially named after Haqiqi during a ceremony attended by several officials and cineastes in the courtyard of the House of Cinema on Thursday.
Merila Zarei, Behruz Afkhami, Mohammadreza Honarmand, Pantea Bahram and Kambuzia Partovi are some of the cineastes that attended the event.
The 15-seat theater is located on the second story of the Iran’s House of Cinema building.
At the ceremony, the secretary of the House of Cinema Kiumars Purahmad said that they had organized two programs for the ceremony, naming the hall after Haqiqi and celebrating the birth anniversary of veteran Iranian director Masud Kimiaii.
Kimiaii blew out the candles of his birthday at the ceremony and made a short speech about Nemat Haqiqi.
“Haqiqi was a real poet and a highly skilled cameraman and such a person will not be seen again in the history of Iranian cinema. His work will remain always as the most poetic by a cameraman in the cinema industry,” Kimiaii said.
Born in 1939, Haqiqi left the 4th grade of high school to begin his career with Farrokh Ghaffari’s “South of the City” (1958). He attended film sessions arranged by Ghaffari where he became familiar with the world’s most famous movies.
Haqiqi’s career spanned more than 35 films and TV series. Filming Masud Kimiaii’s “The Deer”, “Dash Akol”, and “Baluch” and Behruz Afkhami’s “The Bride” and “Hemlock” were among his credits.
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