Kamran Shirdel (Persian: کامران شیردل; born 21 June 1939) is an Iranian filmmaker and documentarist.

[1] He worked as an assistant director with John Huston on The Bible before making his diploma film, Gli Specchi (The Mirrors), in Rome.

[5] He is also the managing director of Filmgrafic Co. Kamran Shirdel was appointed as Il cavaliere Della Republica Italiana and received the Medals of La stella della solidarieta italiana in a ceremony held in Farmanieh Palace in Tehran in May 2010.

[6][7][8][9] Every year, the IDFA, International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, gives an acclaimed filmmaker the chance to screen his or her personal Top 10 favorite films.

In 2007, filmmaker Maziar Bahari selected Kamran Shirdel's The Night It Rained for his top ten classics from the history of documentary.