Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Persian Film Festival Australia Official Site ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Introducing PFFA Membership](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/introducing-pffa-membership/) - Join us today and access Member-Only perks. - [Announcing 2026 Festival Dates](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/announcing-2026-festival-dates/) - The Persian Film Festival Australia is pleased to announce that its next edition will take place in April 2026. - [Calling for the 7th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/calling-for-the-7th-edition/) - Persian-speaking filmmakers from Iran, Afghanistan or Tajikistan, anywhere in the world, we invite you to submit your films. - [Rest in Peace Abbas Kiarostami](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/rest-in-peace-abbas-kiarostami/) - Abbas Kiarostami, the most celebrated Iranian filmmaker, passed away on Monday 4th July at the age of 76. - [Alina Gozin’a](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/alina-gozina/) - Alina Gozin’a is an Interdisciplinary Artist and Creative Intelligence Theorist. Alina has embarked on a remarkable transition from her role as a tax advisor in banking at PwC to becoming a Cannes Lions nominated, award-winning creative. She is renowned as one of Australia’s foremost figures in her field. Through her expertise in photography, film, and art, she crafts compelling narratives for global corporations, media outlets, and distinguished individuals. As a photographer, Alina has captured cover portraits of prominent figures such as , Andrew Forrest, Scott Farquhar, Frank Lowy, Anthony Pratt, Judith Neilson, Christine Lagarde, Oscar winners Alicia Vikander and Emile Sherman, and actors like Ewan McGregor, Michael Shannon, Anthony LaPaglia to mention a few. She has photographed in New York, LA and Sydney for HBO, STAN, The Australian Financial Review Magazine, Madame Figaro, Forbes, WIRED UK, WISH Magazine, The Fin, Tatler Asia, and many more. As a director, Alina was nominated for the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions for her debut commercial ‘3 Fat Babushkas’. She also directed the short documentary Life on the Rocks, and later this month, her original docudrama TV series is set for international development. And as an artist, Alina creates large-scale photographic, brass, and luminous optical illusion artworks. Her art investigates historical events that have created lasting ripple effects across time and space, often resulting in significant transformations for humanity. She has held numerous solo exhibitions in both New York City and Sydney. Alina is also recognised as a leading authority in Creative Intelligence and is an industry board member at UTS (TD School). She serves as a guest lecturer on photography and creative intelligence in both Sydney and New York. Alina works with community organisations dedicated to empowering underprivileged youth: her philanthropic efforts include partnerships with esteemed charities such as Art Start in New York, as well as MMAD XUniversal Music in Sydney. She has also contributed her talents to The Royal Hospital for Women Foundation. - [Tennessine a film by Amin Palangi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/tennessine-sydney-film-festival-official-selection/) - Amin Palangi's latest film, 'Tennessine', screens at the Sydney Film Festival. - [Saeed Roustaee](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/saeed-roustaee/) - Saeed Roustaee is an Iranian film director and screenwriter known for his work on social injustice and portrayals of women in Iranian society. He graduated from Soore University with a degree in Film and Television directing. Roustayi's notable films include Life and a Day (2016), Just 6.5 (2019), and Leila's Brothers (2022), which have garnered awards and international recognition. - [Media Release: Persian Film Festival 2025 | A Festival of Fearless Cinema](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/media-release-persian-film-festival-australia-2025/) - We are thrilled to announce that Amin Palangi, the director of the Persian Film Festival, has been selected to have his latest film, 'Tennessine', screened at the Sydney Film Festival in June. - [AFTRS Theatre](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/aftrs/) - Building 130, The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park NSW 2021 - [The Playhouse](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/armidale-playhouse/) - 309 Beardy St, Armidale NSW 2350 - [Palace Moore Park](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/palace-moore-park/) - Shop 215, 122 Lang Rd Moore Park NSW 2021 - [Palace Como](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/palace-como/) - Level 1, Toorak Rd & Chapel St, South Yarra VIC 3141 - [Farhadi’s The Salesman Opens the Festival](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/the-salesman-opens-2016-festival/) - The 5th Persian Film Festival‬ will open nationally with Asghari Farhadi’s two time Palme d'Or winner “The Salesman”. - [Iranian filmmakers at Cannes](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/iranian-filmmakers-at-cannes/) - Two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi and lauded Iranian filmmaker, Jafar Panahi competing in the world’s number 1 festival, Cannes 2018. - [Everybody Knows at Cannes](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/everybody-knows-at-cannes/) - Asghar Farhadi's 8th feature film, shot entirely in Spanish on the Iberian Peninsula, charts the story of Laura, who lives with her husband and children in Buenos Aires. - [Jafar Panahi’s Three Faces at Cannes](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/jafar-panahis-three-faces-at-cannes/) - Although Jafar Panahi has been banned from filmmaking and leaving the country since 2010, he keeps working without the approval of Iranian authorities. - [Panahi & Abbasi win at Cannes](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/panahi-abbasi-cannes-winners/) - Solmaz Panahi, daughter of Jafar Panahi, received the award on behalf of her father during the closing ceremony of the event. - [2018 Program Announced](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/program-announced/) - 7th Persian Film Festival presents some of the greatest, most courageous and artistic works by Persian-speaking filmmakers from across the globe. Check out the festival schedule to see details on Special Events and Film screenings in Sydney and Melbourne. - [Submit Your Film](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/submit-your-film/) - Persian-speaking filmmakers from across the globe are invited to compete for the Golden Gazelle Award for Best Feature and Best Documentary. For more information check submissions guidelines. - [Persian Film Festival 2023](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/persian-film-festival-2023/) - We are excited to announce that the 10th Persian Film Festival will be taking place from April 26th to May 7th, 2023 in four Australian cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. This event will feature the best of Iranian cinema, with an official competition in feature, documentary, and short film categories, culminating in the Golden - [Zalava to Open 10th edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/zalava-to-open-10th-edition/) - Arsalan Amiri's horror film "Zalava" opens the 10th Persian Film Festival. - [Closing Night Film: Imagine](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/imagine-tasavor-by-ali-behrad/) - Ali Behrad's "Imagine" (Tasavor) will be the final film of Persian Film Festival 10th edition's closing night. - [The 11th Persian Film Festival Opening Night](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/the-11th-persian-film-festival-opening-night/) - [Poetry in Motion: Exploring the Language of Persian Films](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/poetry-in-motion-exploring-the-language-of-persian-films/) - Language and poetry shape how a culture thinks, feels, and expresses itself. In Persian culture, they are more than tools of communication; instead, they are living traditions that hold beauty, memory, and meaning. - [Parviz Shahbazi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/parviz-shahbazi/) - Born in July 16, 1962 in Tehran, Iran, Parviz Shahbazi is a filmmaking graduate of the Tehran Cinema College. During the early 80s he began writing short stories and directing short films. After editing several films and directing 12 shorts he made his first feature, Traveler from the South, in 1997. This debut feature has been screened at countless international festivals bringing Shahbazi worldwide recognition and several awards along the way, including the Golden Award at the 1997 Tokyo IFF. His second feature, Whispers (2000) has likewise won much international acclaim. In 2002 his third film, Deep Breath, was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes IFF, to great critical acclaim. The movie also won a FIPRESCI award at the Pusan IFF, the Jury’s Special Award at the Turin IFF and the Best Film Award at the Belgrade Author Festival. Karat 14, made in 2007, and Trapped, 2013, are Shahbazi’s fourth and fifth features. Malaria, his sixth movie, was selected for the 2016 Venice Film Festival and the same year won the Grand Prix at the Warsaw IFF. - [Reading Lolita in Tehran](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/reading-lolita-in-tehran/) - Enjoy screening with a glass of wine - [Closing Night Ceremony](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/closing-night-ceremony/) - Award Ceremony followed by afterparty - [Opening Night Ceremony](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/opening-night-ceremony/) - Ceremony followed by screening - [Ruby Arrowsmith-Todd](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ruby-arrowsmith-todd/) - Ruby Arrowsmith-Todd is the film program curator at the Art Gallery of NSW. - [Eran Riklis](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/eran-riklis/) - Eran Riklis has been active in the movie world since 1975. After graduating from Beaconsfield National Film School in England, he made his first film in 1984, "On a clear Day you can see Damascus", a political thriller based on a true story. Seven years later, he shot "Cup Final", later hailed by international critics and selected in several film festivals (among which were Berlin and Venice). In 1993 "Zohar" was a big hit in Israel. His 1999 "Vulcano Junction" is the filmmaker's tribute to rock and roll. His next two efforts, The Syrian Bride (2004) and Etz Limon (2008) , have been acclaimed on a worldwide scale, and not only in festivals. On the other hand, Riklis has directed shorts, commercials and TV series. He is married, has two children, lives in Tel Aviv but regards himself not only as an Israeli but as a world director. Which he has proved in filming Playoff (2011) in Germany and Zaytoun (2012) in Israel but for the English-speaking market. - [Ezekiel Simat](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ezekiel-simat/) - Ezekiel Simat is an award nominated* actor/writer based between LA & Australia. He is 1 of 5 actors ever to become a Two-time Finalist in Australian in Film's prestigious Heath Ledger Scholarship.** Most recently, he appeared in: NBC Universal's Apples Never Fall opposite Annette Bening and Sam Neill ; The Artful Dodger (Disney+) with David Thewlis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster & Exposure (Stan) with Alice Englert dir. by Bonnie Moir. Previously, he has worked on the record-setting*** Lambs of God, dir. Jeffrey Walker; Amazon-produced Packed to the Rafters reboot & Sydney Film Festival's, Lexus Fellowship film 'Chlorine' opposite 3 Body Problem breakout Marlo Kelly. In 2025, he launched his production company H16, with the goal of producing international-grade content locally across several mediums. * Equity Ensemble Award nominee - The Artful Dodger ** HLS Finalist 2018 & 2024 *** most AACTA award nominations for a single production. - [Hunter Page-Lochard](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/hunter-page-lochard/) - Hunter Page-Lochard is the Director and founder for the production company DJALI HOUSE. Hunter last worked on the new crime drama for STAN, CRITICAL INCIDENT and reprised his role on the third season of ABC the NEWSREADER which he won the 2024 AACTA award for best supporting actor in a drama. Hunter wrote, directed, and starred in the short film DJALI which premiered at the 2018 Sydney Film Festival and the opening night for Flickerfest Short Film Festival. He co-wrote and directed ABC short film CLOSED DOORS which also opened the Flickerfest short film festival. He has also directed for ABC’s family show THALU, has written and directed for PLAYSCHOOL, BEEP & MORT and THE WONDER GANG. Hunter has starred in many Films and TV series including ABC series BARONS and ABC/NBCUniversal FIRES, Paul Goldman’s feature film KID SNOW alongside Billy Howle and Tom Bateman. ABC’s CLEVERMAN, which premiered at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival, aired on SUNDANCE TV in the US. He has worked on films including Stephen Page’s SPEAR, which premiered at the 2015 TIFF, and AROUND THE BLOCK which screened at the 2014 TIFF. He is also one of the regular hosts of PLAYSCHOOL on ABC. - [Aliyar Rasti](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/aliyar-rasti/) - Born in Tehran, Iran in 1988, he began his career in photography, video and video installations before gradually moving towards his true passion of filmmaking. He has made more than ten music videos for independent Iranian bands which have screened at various festivals. His first short film, In Between, won the Best Debut Film award at the 2018 Tirana International Film Festival. It was followed by America, his second short. Khamyazeye bozorg is his first feature-length film. - [John Gray](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/john-gray/) - John Gray is a multi-award winning screen composer, having written scores for award winning feature films, documentaries and streaming/television series – some of which have been finalists and winners at The Emmys, Sundance, Montreal, Venice, Berlin, IDFA, HOTDOCS and Sydney international film festivals. A graduate of AFTRS, his drama features include the AFI-nominated KOKODA, THE BET and WHAT LOLA WANTS. He also composed for the critically acclaimed documentary THE OPPOSITION, the Emmy Award winning SBS series GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM, the AACTA-Nominated documentary I AM A GIRL, the ABC documentary series GREAT SOUTHERN LAND and the documentary Audience Award Winner at the 2014 Sydney Film Festival LOVE MARRIAGE IN KABUL. He was nominated for an AACTA for his score on the latest installment of the critically acclaimed mini-series BLUE MURDER. He has also released albums, toured nationally in rock bands, and created experimental work for dance, installations and radio airplay. John is a twice-previous board member of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) and enjoys advocating on behalf of both emerging composers and his peers. - [Sonia Whiteman](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sonia-whiteman/) - Born in Brazil and raised in Aotearoa (NZ), Sonia’s storytelling journey took her to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, for a Bachelor of Film and Television. Now she is a Sydney based Writer and Director. Her early short films captivated audiences worldwide, screening at prestigious festivals such as Oberhausen, Cinema Jove, Bruxelles, and Los Angeles. LEN’S LOVE STORY starring Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman made waves as the only Australian film in competition at Clermont-Ferrand 2007 and was highlighted by *New York Magazine* as one of the Top 5 shorts at Tribeca. Meanwhile, HANDYMAN earned a spot as a Best Australian Comedy Finalist at St Kilda Film Festival. Sonia co-wrote the feature film UPROAR, starring Julian Dennison, Minnie Driver, and Rhys Darby, which premiered at TIFF 2023 before its theatrical release worldwide. She was a Director, Co-Writer, and Story Producer on THE DISPOSABLES, a bold youth environmental action series (Photoplay Films/ABC TV). Selected for the Writers Campus at Series Mania 2024, Sonia continues to develop a slate of exciting projects in both Film and TV, in her drive to bring compelling stories to the screen. - [Ali Zarnegar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-zarnegar/) - Iranian poet, writer, and director Ali Zarnegar was born in Tehran in 1983. He earned a Master's in Theatre as well as his degree in film directing from Tehran University of Art. Zarnegar started his career in both literature and film at the same time, becoming well-known in each. He produced seven outstanding short films between 2002 and 2015, with "Becoming" winning the prestigious Best Film and Best Screenplay prizes at the 27th Tehran International Short Film Festival. His debut movie, "Living with the Presence of a Wall", however, encountered adverse circumstances and had to be stopped after only seventeen days of filming since it was refused a screening license. For "Wednesday, May 9" Zarnegar was nominated for the Best Screenplay prize at the 33rd Fajr International Film Festival in 2014. With awards from the Special Jury Award at the Berkshire International Film Festival, the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the Bratislava International Film Festival, this movie went on to enjoy tremendous success. Zarnegar was nominated for the Best Screenplay prize at the 35th Fajr International Film Festival two years later, in 2016, this time for his movie "No Date, No Signature". The movie earned the Best Writing Prize at the 27th Stockholm International Film Festival in addition to the Cinema Cinema Academy award in Iran. More than 40 festivals have accepted "No Date, No Signature" and it has won more than 10 international honours. Zarnegar's extraordinary creativity was once more acknowledged in 2018, when his film "Bone Marrow" earned him a nomination for Best Writing at the Fajr International Film Festival. Zarnegar undertook a new endeavor in 2022 when he wrote and directed his first movie. This indie production presents the tale of seven people who were stuck in the middle of a desert and must come to a decision as a group based on their unique personal circumstances. - [Hossein Molayemi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/hossein-molayemi/) - Born in 1982, Shiraz,Iran. He received his M.A. in animation directing from Tehran University of Art. He started his professional career since 2004. Since then, he has worked as director, character designer, storyboard artist and animator in some animated short films, TV series and commercials and has won some awards so far. He also has taught directing, animating and character design in some universities and art institutes in Iran. He is the founder of animation scientific association of Tehran University of Art and the president of Barfak Animation Studio. - [Shirin Sohani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/shirin-sohani/) - Shirin Sohani was born in 1986, Tehran, Iran. She holds a M.A. in animation directing (Tehran University of Art). She started her professional career in 2012. Director, Concept artist, Background artist, Script writer & Production manager. "In the Shadow of the Cypress /Dar Saaye Sarv" is her first professional film. Her graduation animated film, The Fan (2014) won national & international awards. - [Abbas Amini](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/abbas-amini/) - Born in Abadan, Iran in 1983, he moved to Tehran in 2001 and began working as an assistant director on various feature films. His first short films and documentaries focused on social topics such as the consequences of the Iraq-Iran war and particularly the welfare of children. - [Pegah Ahangarani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/pegah-ahangarani/) - Pegah Ahangarani (born 1984) is an Iranian actress, film director and musician. She has directed 7 documentaries and acted in more than 40 feature films. Her movies (where she starred or directed) have been shown in many festivals, including Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival. She has received many prizes in different festivals: Best Actress in Cairo Film Festival; Best Actress in Locarno Film Festival; Best Director for Ghazaleh Alizadeh in Cinema Verité International Film Festival; Best Director in Isfahan International Film Festival for Tamashakhaneh; Best Creativity for Dehnamakiha in Khane Cinema Film Festival. - [Tara Aghdashloo](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/tara-aghdashloo/) - Tara Aghdashloo is a writer, director and poet born in Iran. Prior to filmmaking, she was a journalist and documentarian covering international current affairs, arts and culture with a focus on the MENA region. In 2020 she completed a masterclass by renowned filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who remains as her mentor. Since then, her shorts have been commissioned and funded by BFI Network, Canada Council of the Arts, BBC, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council among others, and competed at festivals globally. EMPTY YOUR POCKETS is her third short film produced by OPC Film and Intermission Films. Her debut narrative feature, which is a Canadian-UK co-production, is in development with Caspian Films with support from Telefilm Canada and Ontario Creates. - [Niloufar Taghizadeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/niloufar-taghizadeh/) - Niloufar Taghizadeh was born in Iran and began working in the film industry at an early age. In 1996, she traveled to Germany to study film directing at the Athanor Academy. In the course of her career, she has worked on many international projects as a writer, director and producer. Further film projects were created in collaboration with Arte and ZDF. In 2019, she founded her production company “Windcatcher-Productions” with which she has brought together a young team and deals intensively with serious stories and biographies on film. The topic of human rights, especially women's and children's rights, is very prevalent in her films. She tries to address oppression in every form, be it art and culture or social conditions, using personal stories to bring their reality to the general public. In 2024, Niloufar Taghizadeh is bringing two documentary feature films to cinemas and international festivals. “Nila's Dream in the Garden of Eden” and ‘Googoosh - Made of Fire’ differ in their story and aesthetics, but not in their basic need to condemn oppression and reappraise Iran's history. With her films, she contributes to reflecting on the social conditions in Iran and the whole world and to adopting other perspectives. - [Alireza Khatami](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/alireza-khatami/) - Alireza is an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker based in Canada. Born into the indigenous Khamse tribe in Iran, he is influenced by his heritage's rich storytelling traditions. His films poignantly investigate the interconnection of memory, trauma, and power dynamics, often through a philosophical lens and with a dark sense of humor. He has worked with esteemed filmmakers such as Asghar Farhadi. His debut feature, "Oblivion Verses," developed at the Cinéfondation Residency of the Festival de Cannes, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, winning three awards, including the Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay and the FIPRESCI Prize. Alireza also co-wrote "Until Tomorrow," which premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival. - [Ali Asgari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-asgari/) - Ali Asgari is a prominent Iranian cinema figure with more than 200 awards to his name. Two of his short films, More Than Two Hours (2013) and The Silence (2016), were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes. The Baby was featured in the short film competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2014. Ali's films focus on the precarious lives of individuals living on the margins of society in his native country, Iran. His debut film, “Disappearance”, was developed at the Cinéfondation Residency of the Festival de Cannes and had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in 2017. "Until Tomorrow," his second feature film, at the Berlinale in 2022. Ali is a member of the he Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. - [Behtash Sanaeeha](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/behtash-sanaeeha/) - Behtash Sanaeeha was born in Shiraz. After completing his degree in architecture, he began writing scripts and directing short films, documentaries and commercials. His first feature film RISK OF ACID RAIN (2015) was screened at more than thirty international festivals. - [Maryam Moghaddam](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/maryam-moghaddam/) - Maryam Moghaddam was born in Tehran. She is an actress, screenwriter and director. She graduated from the Performing Arts School of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has performed in various Swedish theatres and has starred in Iranian films such as Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi’s CLOSED CURTAIN (2013), which won a Silver Bear at the 63rd Berlinale. - [Nader Saeivar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/nader-saeivar/) - Born in 1974 in Tabriz, Nader Saeivar is an Iranian writer and director who started his career in 1992 with short films. In 2018 he was awarded Best Screenplay in Cannes for 3 FACES (2018) alongside Jafar Panahi. In 2020 he made his feature directorial debut with NAMO, which premiered in the Berlinale. His second feature, NO END, premiered at the Busan International Film Festival in 2022. THE WITNESS is his third feature as a director. He also has a master's degree from University of Tehran and teaches Cinema at various institutes and universities. - [Zar Amir](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/zar-amir/) - Born on 9 July 1981 in Tehran, Zar Amir Ebrahimi is a Franco-Iranian actress, producer and director. After studying theatre in Tehran, she directed her first short film Khat in 2000. Her role in the Iranian series Nargess (2006) brought her to public attention. In 2017, she starred in Tehran Taboo, directed by Ali Soozandeh and presented at Cannes as part of Critics’ Week. She set up her own production company in 2019 and that same year, alongside actress Golshifteh Farahani, received the Hamburg Award for Cultural Freedom; the Persian Spring Festival in Hamburg rewarded their struggles as independent Iranian artists and women. In 2022 she won the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as the journalist Rahimi in the film Holy Spider (2022) by director Ali Abbasi. She also worked as casting director and producer on the film. She is the first Iranian woman to receive this distinction. - [Guy Nattiv](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/guy-nattiv/) - Born in Tel Aviv in 1973, Guy Nattiv graduated from his home city’s Camera Obscura film school, having previously worked in advertising for Publicis Groupe. He made several award-winning short films, including 2018’s racial Skin, a tale of racial hate crime, which won the 2018 Academy Award for best live short. His feature film of the same name was also released in 2018. Golda, his biopic about Golda Meir, is selected for the Festival in 2023, and he is back in 2024 with a new biopic about the Iranian judoka Leila Hosseini. - [Majid Asadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/majid-asadi/) - Majid Asadi was borin in 1988 in Iran. He has been working as a director and actor and holds a Bachelors degree in Theater Directing from Nabi Akram University of Tabriz. - [Somayeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/somayeh/) - Somayeh is an Iranian-born writer and director whose work bridges the cinematic worlds of Iran and the West. After earning a BA in Media Arts and an MA in Documentary by Practice from Royal Holloway, University of London, she moved to London in 2011 to begin her career as an edit assistant. Over the past 13 years, she has not only established a successful editing career but also honed her voice as a writer and director, working across commercials and narrative projects. Her latest short film, Skin of Water | پوست آب, produced by Ridley Scott Associates, is currently on the festival circuit and has been nominated for Best UK Short at the BAFTA/BIFA-qualifying Raindance Film Festival 2024 and is a Semi-Finalist at the Oscar Qualifying Flickers’ Rhode Island Festival 2024. As part of the next generation of Iranian filmmakers, Somayeh aims to push the legacy of Iranian cinema into a unique magic realism space. By combining the raw poetry of Iranian culture with the heavy influence of Western cinematography, VFX, and sound design, she envisions herself developing as an artist in a style that blends and infuses Iranian sensibilities with the cinematic approaches of directors like Yorgos Lanthimos, Jonathan Glazer, and Joachim Trier. - [Tahmineh Bahram](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/tahmineh-bahram/) - Tahmineh Bahram received her Masters in Drama Literature from the Tehran University of Art & Architecture in 2002 and has since been screenwriting and directing documentaries. Most notably, she was the co-screenwriter of “Zalava” (2021), a feature film directed by Arsalan Amiri, which won the Best Screenplay and other awards at the 39th Fajr Film Festival in Iran. The film also won grand prize at the 36th Venice International Film Critics Week and FIPRESCI award at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. - [Omid Mirzaei](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/omid-mirzaei/) - Omid Mirzaei was born in 1988 in Iran. Reza suffers from Behcets disease. Behçets disease is a type of inflammatory disorder which affects multiple parts of the body. The most common symptoms include painful sores on the mucous membranes of the mouth and other parts of the body, inflammation of parts of the eye, and arthritis. The sores can last from a few days, up to a week or more - [Reza Nejati](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/reza-nejati/) - Reza Nejati was born in 1994 in Iran. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Education of Dramatic Acting from the Faculty of Arts and Architecture. - [Majid Barzegar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/majid-barzegar/) - Majid Barzegar is an Iranian film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. He established his own film company Rainy pictures in 2005 with the aim of stimulating the independent film production in Iran. - [Pat Fiske](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/pat-fiske/) - Pat Fiske is an experienced director and producer. She is recognised as a prominent member of Australia's independent filmmaking community. In 2001 she was awarded the prestigious Stanley Hawes Award for her outstanding contribution to the documentary industry in Australia at AIDC. Pat was Co-Head of the Documentary Department at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School from 2002-2008 and worked as the Documentary Consultant at SBS Independent for eighteen months in 2000-2001. Some of the films she has directed and/or produced are the award-winning documentaries: Rocking the Foundations, a history of the NSW Builders Laborers Federation and the Green Bans; Woolloomooloo; For All the World to See, a portrait of Professor Fred Hollows; 'Doc', a portrait of Herbert Vere Evatt; Australia Daze; Following the Fenceline; Larrikin Lad - Warren Fahey; Leaping off the Edge; An Artist in Eden and Night Patrol. She has produced the two-part series Business Behind Bars; Selling Sickness; River of No Return; Scarlet Road and Love Marriage in Kabul. In 2012-13 she was Supervising Producer for the National Indigenous Documentary Fund 5-part series, Call to Country. Pat has two film companies – Bower Bird Films and Paradigm Pictures. At present she is in development on When Disaster Strikes, Trafficking Jam and When the Camera Stopped Rolling. - [Peter Andrikidis](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/peter-andrikidis/) - Peter Andrikidis is a Director known for his work on television series such as ‘Cop Shop’ ‘G.P.’, ‘Water Rats’, ‘Wildside’, ‘Grass Roots’ and ‘Farscape’ as well as telemovies such as ‘My Husband My Killer’, ‘Heroes Mountain’ and ‘Blackjack’. Peter directed all seasons of Multi Award Winning ‘East West 101’ as well as the first season of ‘Underbelly’. Peter’s first feature was ‘Kings of Mykonos’ followed bythe comedy ‘Alex and Eve’. Recent projects include ‘The New Legends of Monkey’, ‘Reckoning’ and ‘Eden’. He has won numerous awards for directing/producing and was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for his services to Australian society and Australian film production. Weeks after graduating, Hii was cast in Alex Proyas' film 'Paradise Lost' as a fallen Angel alongside Bradley Cooper's Lucifer. The production however was shutdown citing budgetary reasons. Immediately following, Hii appeared playing the true story of Van Tuong Nguyen, an Australian sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Singapore. For his role as Van in Better Man, Remy was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, and won the Graham Kennedy Award For Most Outstanding Newcomer. Hii was introduced to international audiences as Prince Jingim, heir to the Kublai Khan's Mongolian Empire in the Netflix/Weinstein Original production Marco Polo. Remy underwent rigorous physical training for the role including martial arts, archery, horse riding, and performed his own stunts on the show. Hii returned to the stage in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The Golden Age in 2016. - [Romaine Moreton](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/romaine-moreton/) - Dr Romaine Moreton is Goenpul Yagera of Stradbroke Island and Bundjulung of northern New South Wales. She is an internationally recognised writer of poetry, prose and film. While a Research Fellow Filmmaker in Residence at Monash, she completed the powerful transmedia work One Billion Beats, that examined the historical representation of Aboriginal people in Australian cinema. Prior to that, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Newcastle and worked on a project about Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property. With Dr Lou Bennett, Romaine has been working closely with AFTRS over the last two years on a first-of-its-kind Indigenous Curriculum for screen and broadcast, focussed through the lens of ethics and aesthetics. Dr Moreton is responsible for leading the design and implementation of the School’s First Nations and Outreach strategy, to ensure that AFTRS is continuing the work of the previous Head of Indigenous, Kyas Hepworth (née Sherriff), and meaningfully embedding First Nations culture in all that the School does, internally and externally, and that AFTRS takes a leadership position as a hub of excellence in learning that is safe, inclusive and accessible to people from all across Australia. - [Rahel Romahn](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/rahel-romahn/) - Rahel Romahn is one of the finest actors of his generation. He has worked professionally in Film, Television and Theatre since the age of 13 and continuously grown the plethora of experience he has built in Australia. He was nominated for a AACTA and Logie awards for his complex portrayal of a troubled youth in ‘The Principal’. Since then Rahel has been involved in tv shows such as, the yet to be released Australian Gangster, Mr Inbetween, Janet King, Pulse, Secret City, Cleverman and Underbelly. His film credits include, Down Under, Alex and Eve, The Combination, Ali’s Wedding, Little Monsters and the yet to be released films, Here Out West, Streets of Colour and Moon Rock for Monday. He has also starred in 7 plays at the highly esteemed Sydney Theatre Company in the last 3 years. Rahel is fast becoming one of the most sought after young actors in Australia and will very surely soon be working internationally. He is represented by Shanahan Management. - [Helena Sawires](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/helana-sawires/) - Helana Sawires is an Egyptian-Australian actress, based in Sydney. Born into a large, creative family of artists and musicians, she has always lived under the influence of, and in the world of the performing arts and crafts. After graduating from Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in 2011, Helana travelled for a year through Africa and Europe where she gained much of her inspiration and insight into the human condition. In 2015, she trained under master acting coach Sam Schacht at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York. Soon after, she was cast as lead actress in Australian feature film Ali’s Wedding in the role of Dianne, directed by Jeffrey Walker. Her performance earned her nominations for Best Lead Actress at the AACTA Awards, Australian Film Critics Association Awards, and Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Months after filming, she returned to Melbourne to play another lead female role as Jomana in Samah Sabawi’s play Tales of a City By the Sea. The play toured nationally and to Malaysia, and was included in the Victorian school curriculum. It won two awards from Drama Victoria and was nominated for the Green Room award for Best Independent Theatre production. Helana’s most recent work is in highly acclaimed Australian Television series, STATELESS (2020), where she played the role of Rosna, a detainee Kurdish Freedom Fighter. - [Bonnie Elliott](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/bonnie-elliott/) - Bonnie Elliott is an award-winning cinematographer who works across drama, documentary and video art. Bonnie’s work has screened at major international festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Tribeca, Rotterdam, Sydney & Melbourne. She has received recognition from the Australian Cinematographer’s Society on numerous occasions. Bonnie shot her debut feature film in Iran. MY TEHRAN FOR SALE, directed by Granaz Moussavi, premiered at the 2009 Adelaide Film Festival, and screened at international film festivals including Toronto, Pusan and Rotterdam. - [Mojean Aria](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mojean-aria/) - Mojean Aria is an Australian actor, writer and director who won the 2017 Heath Ledger Scholarship award. He attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at the age of fourteen. In 2004 he won a scholarship to The McDonald College High School of Performing Arts. In 2005 he landed a lead role in the feature film Cross Life directed by Claire McCarthy, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival. He later relocated to Los Angeles. His work has been screened at; Cannes Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and more. - [Rachel Ward](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/rachel-ward/) - Rachel Ward is an actress, screenwriter and film and television director. She is known for The Thorn Birds (1983), Sharky's Machine (1981) and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). She garnered nomination for ‘New Star of the Year’ award at the Golden Globe for playing Dominoe in the film ‘Sharky's Machine’. Her portrayal of Meggie Cleary in the television miniseries ‘The Thorn Birds’ fetched her a second Golden Globe nomination, afterwhich Rachel Ward featured in several screen productions and feature films. She won several directors awards for ‘The Big House’. Her directorial works also include the film ‘Martha's New Coat’ and ‘Beautiful Kate’. - [Susan Prior](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/susan-prior/) - Susan Prior works extensively in film, television and theatre. She received an AACTA Award for David Michod's film, The Rover. Other films include: Jasper Jones, Animal Kingdom, Book Week, Rising Wolf, Aim High in Creation, Not Suitable for Children, A Cold Summer (co-writer) Idiot Box. She starred in the Oscar-nominated short The Saviour, and Jennifer Kent’s Monster. On television: The Gloaming, Les Norton, Glitch, Riot, Safe Harbour, Top of the Lake, Rake, Puberty Blues (AACTA Award nomination). She has written articles for Inside Film magazine as well. - [Robert Mackenzie](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/robert-mackenzie/) - Robert Mackenzie is an Australian supervising sound editor who has been enriching the film world with his creative soundscapes for over twenty-five years. He body of work includes Animal Kingdom (2010), The Hunter (2011), Lore (2012), Felony (2013), The Grandmaster (2013), The Rover (2014), Deadline Gallipoli (2015), Partisan (2015), Lion (2016), and critically acclaimed war-drama film Hacksaw Ridge (2017), for which he received two Academy Award nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. Most recently Rob has completed work on The Nightingale and Mystify, Judy & Punch, Top End Wedding, and in addition to David Michôd’s medieval epic, The King. - [Tom Zubrycki](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/tom-zubrycki/) - Tom Zubrycki is a filmmaker and producer whose award winning documentaries have earned an international reputation for their truthfulness, realism and humanity. For the last 40 years, his work has mapped Australia’s changing social and political landscape. He has written and directed 15 documentaries, most of them feature-length, and produced another 22 with mostly early career filmmakers. He also has been actively involved in a number of industry organisations including the Australian Directors Guild and OZDOX, the Australian Documentary Forum. - [Megan McMurchy](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/megan-mcmurchy/) - Megan McMurchy is an independent film and television producer with more than 50 hours of television credits. Most recently she executive-produced the two-part documentary Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare for ABC TV. She co-produced feature documentary Tyke Elephant Outlaw (BBC, Netflix) and produced the web series I Luv U But. Her award-winning documentaries include Sadness, Mr Patterns, Mystique of the Pearl, For Love or Money, and the series Fine Line and Hybrid Life. She also produced the feature films Footy Legends, Talk and Breathing Under Water. - [Stefan Moore](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/stefan-moore/) - Stefan Moore is a producer/director and executive producer of documentaries in the USA, Britain and Australia. His documentaries have received four Emmys and numerous other awards. In the US, he was co-director of TVG Productions in New York, a series producer at WNET and a producer for the prime time CBS News magazine program 48 HOURS. In the UK Stefan worked as a series producer at the BBC, and in Australia he was an Executive Producer for Film Australia and the ABC where he commissioned a slate of critically acclaimed films and series. - [Mitzi Goldman](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mitzi-goldman/) - Mitzi Goldman is a Producer of Good Pitch² Australia and currently CEO of the Documentary Australia Foundation, bringing philanthropists and filmmakers together to create social change. Mitzi has written, produced, edited and directed award-winning international documentaries for over 25 years. From 2002–2008 Mitzi was Co-Head of Documentary at AFTRS. Her production company, Looking Glass Pictures Pty Ltd, specialises in social impact documentary. Mitzi holds a BA from University of Sydney and a Phd in Cultural Studies. - [David White](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/david-white/) - David White is an Australian Sound Designer and Sound Editor best known for his role as the sound designer of the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road. White won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road with fellow sound editor Mark Mangini. - [Andrea Demetriades](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/andrea-demetriades/) - Andrea has worked consistently in Film, TV and Theatre since graduating from NIDA in 2006. Feature films include Adam & Eve, Around the Blockand Nerve. Television includes Pulse,Seven Types of Ambiguity, Janet Kingseries 1, 2 & 3, Crowniesand The Principal. Other TV credits include Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Mr & Mrs Murder, Think Tank and All Saints. Andrea has worked in theatre across the country including Arcadia, Arms and the Man, Perplexand Pygmalionfor STC, The Dog/The Cat, The Book of Everything, Oedipus Rexfor Belvoir, A Beautiful Lifefor Riverside, Intimate Letters, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Nightand Pericles for Bell Shakespeare Co. She has also appeared in Helly’s Magic Cupfor STCSA and Winter for the Griffin Theatre. More recently she had starred in Antigone for Sport for Jove. - [Fereydoun Mehrabi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/fereydoun-mehrabi/) - Fereydoun is an Iranian actor and theatre director. Hehas performed and directed more than 40 plays and acted in numerous TV series and features. He has also been a lecturer at University of Art (Cinema and Theatre) and University of Art and Architecture in Iran. - [Ester Harding](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ester-harding/) - Ester Harding is a creative producer, working across film, television and multiplatform content. For See Pictures, she served as production executive on feature drama BREATH, co-produced feature comedy SWINGING SAFARI, and produced REMEMBERING AGATHA, a half-hour film for the ABC. Previously, for Media Stockade Ester co-produced feature documentary I AM A GIRL and line-produced broadcast documentary THE SURGERY SHIP for the ABC; for Firelight Productions / 6ixty Foot Films she was the All Media Producer for multiplatform documentary project STORM SURFERS 3D; and for Freehand Productions produced interactive documentary AFTER SIX-FOUR. She has recently joined Screen Australia as a Development Executive. - [Jen Peedom](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/jen-peedom/) - Jen Peedom is a BAFTA nominated director, known for her gripping, intimate portraits of people in extreme circumstances. Her credits include the internationally renowned documentaries SOLO, SHERPA and most recently MOUNTAIN, a collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. SHERPA, was critically acclaimed on the international festival circuit, including Telluride, Toronto and London Film festivals, winning multiple awards including the Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the BFI London Film Festival, the Australian Film Critics Circle Award, the Australian Directors Guild Award, several audience awards and a BAFTA nomination in 2016. The film became the third highest grossing Australian documentary in history. Her most recent film, MOUNTAIN is currently touring with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and will have its international premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival. Madman will release the film in September 2017. In 2010, Jen was the inaugural recipient of the David & Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship which recognizes and rewards creative ambition, intellectual rigour and innovation in documentary cinema. - [Osamah Sami](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/osamah-sami/) - Osama Sami is an award-winning actor, writer, poet and comedian, born in war-torn Iran to Iraqi parents. His critically acclaimed memoir Good Muslim Boy, published by Hardie Grant, was the Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and Highly Commended at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. His play adaptation of the book will be staged by the Malthouse Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre Company as part of their 2018 season. Osamah is also the writer (alongside screenwriting legend Andrew Knight), and star of Ali’s Wedding, which earned them the AWGIE Award for Best Original Feature Film. He is currently writing The Market, a 4 X 1 hour mini series for SBS (produced by December Media); When the birds aren’t free to be buried, a feature animation (Emerald Pictures); and working on a feature film based on his book (Matchbox Pictures). Osamah is recognised as a ‘notable Australian Muslim’ by the Commonwealth of Australia. - [Rebecca Barry](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/rebecca-barry/) - Rebecca’s driving passion is to facilitate stories, share these with an audience in a creative way and get people thinking. She was director and producer of the feature documentary, I am a Girl, which was launched in cinemas in 2013 to sell-out sessions, and was nominated for four AACTA Awards including Best Direction in a Documentary, as well as a nomination for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Australian Directors Guild Awards. Rebecca was a producer of The Surgery Ship (SBS & National Geographic), Call Me Dad (ABC), Psychics in the Suburbs (ABC) and controversial human rights film The Opposition, and an Impact Producer on feature documentary, Embrace. - [Ben Ferris](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ben-ferris/) - Ben Ferris is one of the founders of Sydney Film School, where he is currently the Director and a writing/directing teacher. Ferris, a film writer/director, has screened films and won numerous awards in Paris, New York, Croatia, Italy, Tokyo, Singapore and Amsterdam, as well as having theatrical releases of his works in Tokyo, Croatia, and Australia. His short film ‘The Kitchen’ (2003) won the Grand Prix at the Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Festival in Tokyo in 2005, and his short film ‘Ascension’ (2004) won the Grand Prix at the 4th One Take Film Festival in Croatia in 2004. His debut feature film ‘Penelope’, an Australian–Croatian co-production, screened in National Competition at the 56th Pula Film Festival in Croatia in 2009, and won a Van Gogh Award for Best Fantasy Film at the Amsterdam Film Festival in 2010. In 2016 he completed his second feature film ‘57 Lawson’ which captures daily life within a social housing building in Redfern, under the shadow of impending development. The film is currently on the international festival circuit, and has been critically well received. In 2015, Ferris was the curator of the Sydney Cinémathèque. His writings on cinema have been published worldwide in both French and English. - [Rosemary Blight](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/rosemary-blight/) - Rosemary Blight is one of the founding partners of Goalpost Pictures Australia a leading independent producer of Feature Film and TV drama. Film credits include HOLDING THE MAN, directed by Neil Armfield, FELONY, directed by Matthew Saville and written by Joel Edgerton and the box office hit THE SAPPHIRES, directed by Wayne Blair which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. They are in post production on the feature film STEM with Blumhouse Productions, directed by Leigh Whannell. Recent television credits include the acclaimed CLEVERMAN produced with ABC TV Australia & SundanceTV (US) & FIGHTING SEASON for Foxtel. - [Sue Murray](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sue-murray/) - Sue Murray has executive produced Rolf de Heer’s Dr Plonk, Ten Canoes, The King is Dead! and Charlie’s Country ; the documentaries The Balanda and the Bark Canoes and We’re Livin’ On Dog Food, Tom White and co-produced Alexandra’s Project. She has devised marketing and festivals strategies for Son of a Lion, My Tehran For Sale, Samson & Delilah, Little Sparrows and Beatriz’s War. - [Martin Brown](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/martin-brown/) - Martin produced Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge, winner of Golden Globe for Best Musical in 2001 and was nominated for eight Academy Awards including: Best Picture (winning two for Costume Design and Art Direction). Martin was awarded the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Producer of the Year in 2001 by the Producers' Guild of America for his work on Moulin Rouge. - [Helen Panckhurst](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/helen-panckhurst/) - Helen has produced TV drama, documentaries and feature lms. Her credits as producer for Matchbox include Old School starring Bryon Brown and Sam Neill, The Straits, Gregor Jordan’s documentary Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer. She co-produced, with Penny Chapman, the Logie & AFI Award-winning children’s television series My Place and Ran, the six-part miniseries for SBS. - [Ray Argall](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ray-argall/) - Ray has worked as a director, producer, DOP, editor and writer on features, shorts, documentaries, and established a reputation as one of Australia's most innovative cinematographers on features such as Wrong World, The Prisoner of St Petersberg and Look Both Ways. Ray's rst feature, Return Home, received an AFI Award for best director and was presented at numerous international festivals. - [Nasser Palangi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/nasser-palangi/) - Born in Hamadan, Iran, 1957. Graduated in Visual Arts from the Tehran University in 1984; pursued painting and art education in Tehran until 1989, while lecturing at different universities until 1998. Spent three years working as a war artist creating drawings, paintings and photographs at the beginning of the first Iran-Iraq war (1980- 1988). He also created a series of mural paintings entitled "My Memory of the War" for the congregational mosque of Khorramshahr in Iran in 1981. He received many commissions throughout his career, including installations and two mural reliefs for the War Memorial Museum in Khorramshahr, 1997/98; a mural painting for the Treasure Gallery, Seattle, USA, 2000; a painting for the 'Medicines without Border Project', Dubai, and ten sculptures, 'Migrants in Australia', for the National Multicultural Festival, Canberra, Australia in 2004. Exhibited widely including at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (2000) and the Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran (2001). A selection of his works dating from 1999 to 2005 are at the East & West gallery, Victoria, Australia. Based in Australia. - [Maani Petgar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/maani-petgar/) - Born in Tehran, Iran, November, 1959. After running a Photography Studio, (1980-82), he started working in the film industry with Amir NADERI, in The Runner (1982-83) and Water, Wind, Dust (1985) as stills photographer, assistant director and assistant editor. After working in The Key (Dir. Ebrahim Forouzesh), he migrated to Australia and between 1988 to 1990 worked in the Australian Film Industry in various positions, until he made his first experimental short, Reverse Angle in 1991. In 1994, he returned to Iran to make a documentary on Iranian cinema for SBS TV in Australia and Farabi Cinema Foundation in Iran, but for some reasons, that project was never executed, and instead Cinema Cin- ema was made and Film Lovers, were initiated. He has returned to live and work in Iran since 1997 and planned two feature films in Iran. The first project: Looking Through, is recently completed. He has established his own production houses; Reverse Angle Productions, between 1996-2002 in Australia and Unexposed Films in Iran- since 2004. He is also a part time film critic and collaborator on Film Monthly magazine (in Farsi), and Film International (Quarterly in English, published in Iran), since 1986. - [Yalda Hakim](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/yalda-hakim/) - Yalda Hakim is a well-known presenter of the BBC World News’ flagship program Impact. She joined BBC World News in 2012 as a presenter and correspondent delivering hard-hitting journalism on many global issues. Yalda has reported extensively on the rise and fall of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq. Most recently she travelled to the world’s youngest nation South Sudan which is embroiled in brutal civil war. She reported that more than 4 million people are now on the brink of famine in the devastated country. In 2013 Yalda and her team won a UN Association of Australia Media Award in the category of Best Television Documentary for her two investigations in Yemen. Before joining BBC World News, Yalda was the presenter of SBS Dateline in Australia. From a headline-making investigation in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province to her reporting from Libya during the Arab Spring, Yalda has built up a wealth of journalistic experience around the world. - [Michelle Langford](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/michelle-langford/) - Dr Michelle Langford is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her research spans the cinemas of Iran and Germany. Her research on Iranian cinema has focussed on gender, allegory and aesthetics and had appeared in leading film studies journals including Camera Obscura, Screenand Screening the Past. Her forthcoming book is entitled Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance(Bloomsbury). Her current research project looks at the German films of Iranian filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless. - [Seifollah Samadian](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/seifollah-samadian/) - Born in Tehran in 1954, Seifollah Samadian is an accomplished Iranian artist, photographer and cinematographer. Highly-regarded internationally as an art director with experience working with directors like Martin Scorsese and Abbas Kiarostami, Samadian came to the forefront of critical attention in a wave of Iranian photography that gained momentum in Iranian the arts scene in the years following the 1988 end of the Iran-Iraq war. Samadian later became Professor of Photojournalism at the University of Tehran and is today Publisher and Editor-in-chief of the Iranian cultural magazine Tassvir (Photography). - [Nicole Chamoun](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/nicole-chamoun/) - Nicole Chamoun is best known for her compelling depiction of Iraqi refugee Zahra Al Bayati in SBS's critically acclaimed Safe Harbour, for which she was nominated both for a Logie for Most Outstanding Supporting Actress and an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama; as well as the series lead role of Amirah Al-Amir in On The Ropes, directed by Shannon Murphy, for Lingo Pictures and SBS; and for which Nicole was nominated for the Logie award for Most Outstanding Actress. Nicole's other leading TV roles include Laila in Romper Stomper for Stan network, Afina in the ABC's The Dr Blake Mysteries, Selma in City Homicide for the Seven Network, the comedy series Ronny Chieng International Student and in Esben Storm's Kick for SBS, playing a lead role, Layla. On stage Nicole has appeared as Jomana in Tales Of A City To The Sea for La Mama Theatre which was nominated for a Green Room Award. And along with feature film credits Last Dance and Who Wants to be a Terrorist, Nicole has also appeared in numerous short films including Concern for Welfare which was funded by Create NSW and SBS Australia through the Generator Emerging Filmmakers Fund for SBS Viceland. Nicole will next be seen in the upcoming feature film, Miss Fisher and The Crypt of Tears, directed by Tony Tilse and in the role of Jacinta in the mini-series The Gloaming for ABC Studios. - [MahVeen Shahraki](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mahveen-shahraki/) - MahVeen is an award winning producer. Originally from Iran, MahVeen soon found her home within the Australian film industry with her strong eye for identifying compelling stories and marketplace, linking gifted individuals to launch original work. MahVeen has produced and delivered outstanding national content with international impact including; Ellie & Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt) which featured as a program highlight in Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and the New Zealand International Film Festival. Ellie and Abbie is the first Australian film to open the 2020 Mardi Gras Film Festival in its 27-year history and went on to win the coveted Audience Award, as well as the 2021 AACTA Award for Best Independent Film. As Executive Producer, MahVeen has delivered the international title The Translator with multiple global partners and locations, which has been selected for TIFF industry selects. The Translator had its world premiere in Tallinn in November 2020. MahVeen was selected as a 2020 'One To Watch’ Producer by Screen Producers Australia for her creative passion, commercial knowledge and ability to deliver quality international products. She is currently producing her next feature film "The Rooster" starring Hugo Weaving and Pheonix Raea which is scheduled to premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival 2023. - [Samantha Lang](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/samantha-lang/) - Samantha Lang is a filmmaker. She is produces, directs, and writes. Working in Australia, Europe and the US over the last 20 years, her films have screened at major international festivals including Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, and have received international recognition at the highest level, her film ‘The Well’ competing at the Cannes Film Festival for the prestigious Palme D’Or. In Australia, Samantha’s films have been awarded many times including - at the Australian Film Institute Awards and the Sydney Film Festival. In 2015 – her film ‘Carlotta’ was nominated for five AACTA awards and won three. As well as being a creative practitioner, currently working with Garth Davis, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning in their joint venture I AM THAT - she has mentored, supervised and lectured postgraduate film students in her capacity as Head of Directing at AFTRS (2010-2016), as well as mentored emerging practitioners at SNSW, HIVE at AIFF, and SA. Presently she is a DCA candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her areas of interest include eco feminine cinema and cultural narratives in the Anthropocene. Her company Handmaid Media is committed to producing films that unearth stories from diverse perspectives. With an eye and ear for emerging and established talent, Samantha is committed to finding authentic voices with an edgy aesthetic. A social, ethical, ecological consciousness pervades all the Handmaid Media projects. In 2015 Samantha was elected as President of the Australian Director’s Guild with a mandate to create greater diversity across gender, race and class in the sector. As part of this remit she remains on the taskforce at Screen Australia that rolled out the Gender Matters Initiative in 2016. Recently she has presented papers on gender equity in South Korea and China. Samantha’s current projects include Brown Lake - an eco-thriller, a feature adaptation of cross-cultural comedy ‘Kill The Messenger’ by playwright & comedian, Nakkiah Lui. Asian Australian YA feature ‘Laurinda’ by screenwriter & actress, Michelle Law, and TV drama series of ‘Night Games’ (with producer Aquarius Films). She directed her first VR film ‘Prehistoric VR’ in 2017 and is in development with her next VR anthology ‘Anthropocene Project’ . Her most recent film in 2019 was a documentary on contemporary public artists ‘It all Started with a Stale Sandwich’ - [Remy Hii](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/remy-hii/) - Remy Hii began his career on stage at the age of 19 with the Queensland Theatre Company in the award winning play The Estimator. Television roles soon followed, and three years of full time study with the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, Australia where he graduated in 2011. Weeks after graduating, Hii was cast in Alex Proyas' film 'Paradise Lost' as a fallen Angel alongside Bradley Cooper's Lucifer. The production however was shutdown citing budgetary reasons. Immediately following, Hii appeared playing the true story of Van Tuong Nguyen, an Australian sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Singapore. For his role as Van in Better Man, Remy was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, and won the Graham Kennedy Award For Most Outstanding Newcomer. Hii was introduced to international audiences as Prince Jingim, heir to the Kublai Khan's Mongolian Empire in the Netflix/Weinstein Original production Marco Polo. Remy underwent rigorous physical training for the role including martial arts, archery, horse riding, and performed his own stunts on the show. Hii returned to the stage in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The Golden Age in 2016. - [Anna Cater](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/anna-cater/) - Anna Cater has produced and directed documentaries for Australian and international broadcasters for the past 30 years. Her recent credits include the feature documentaries Richard Leplastrier – Framing the View (ABC) and The Bowraville Murders (SBS). Other documentaries include Dick Smith’s Population Puzzle (ABC); Frank Hurley – the Man Who Made History (BBC, ABC); Outsourced! (PBS, SBS); Honeybee Blues (SBS, Nat Geo); and the feature film Rites of Passage (ABC). Anna began her career as a print journalist and has written for newspapers and magazines around the world. She worked for the ABC’s Background Briefing investigative radio program before becoming head of research and a producer at Four Corners. She began her film production company after graduating from AFTRS with an MA in Documentary in 1997. - [Martin McGrath](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/martin-mcgrath/) - Martin is one of Australia’s most experienced Directors of Photography with over 30 movies to his credit. His first feature, Proof (Dir: Jocelyn Moorhouse) won the AFI award for best film, repeating that success three years later with the release of the iconic Muriel’s Wedding (Dir: PJ Hogan), one of Australia’s most loved movies. The ground-breaking miniseries Blue Murder was released the following year. Many AFI/AACTA and ACS awards and nominations have followed in their wake: Children of the Revolution, On the Beach, The Sound of One hand Clapping, Blackrock, The Broken Shore, Swimming Upstream, Operation Buffalo. Martin shot Rachel Griffiths’ feature debut Ride Like a Girl which was Australia’s highest grossing locally produced film of 2019. Martin’s most recent television credits include Jungle Entertainment’s Wakefield (Dir: Jocelyn Moorhouse and Kim Mourdant) and Porchlight Film’s Operation Buffalo (Dir: Peter Duncan), both commissioned by the ABC, along with Banished for BBC2 and Difficult People for Hulu. His documentary credits include the recent Revelation (Dir: Niall Fulton- ABC) and Blind Ambition (Dir: Robert Coe and Warwick Ross). Martin has just completed NBC’s Young Rock (Dir: Nanatchka Khan and Jefferey Walker) based on the early life of Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock. - [6th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/6th/) - The 6th Persian Film Festival closed successfully in Sydney having attracted over 2,000 audiences. The festival screened eight features and shorts, and held a retrospective on acclaimed Iranian director Amir Naderi. In addition, In partnership with Art Gallery NSW and The Association of Iranica in Australasia, we hosted a full day of engagement, discussion and - [8th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/8th/) - The 8th Persian Film Festival was presented the largest film program dedicated to Persian cinema internationally. The 8th edition of the festival was dedicated to women from the Persian-speaking communities and paid tribute to their strength, courage and artistic expression through screening films by women or with women in leading roles, depicting some of the - [10th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/10th/) - The 10th Persian Film Festival was held from April 26 to May 07 at Palace Cinemas. The program included an official competition in feature, documentary and short film categories and toured to Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide after opening in Sydney. FilmsIN COMPETITION–Short–Barter RETROSPECTIVE–Feature–Born In Evin IN COMPETITION–Short–Bridge IN COMPETITION–Feature–District Terminal IN COMPETITION–Short–Emergency RETROSPECTIVE–Feature–Far From Home - [9th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/9th/) - The 9th Persian Film Festival was presented in partnership with Palace Cinemas and showcased the largest film program dedicated to Persian cinema internationally. The 8th Festival was dedicated to women from the Persian-speaking communities and paid tribute to their strength, courage and artistic expression through screening films by women or with women in leading roles, - [11th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/11th/) - The 11th Persian Film Festival will be held from 24th of April to 04th of May 2025. The program will include an official competition in feature, documentary and short film categories where the festival jury will present the Golden Gazelle Award to the best film in each section. The festival will open in Sydney and - [5th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/5th/) - The 5th Persian Film Festival closed successfully in Sydney having attracted thousands of audiences nationwide. The festival director, Amin Palangi, envisioned the Golden Gazelle Award in order to boost the reputation of Persian Cinema on an international level and recognise the excellence of filmmakers from the region among audiences and members of the industry in - [7th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/7th/) - The 7th Persian Film Festival presented some of the greatest, most courageous and artistic works by Persian-speaking filmmakers from across the globe to Sydney and Melbourne. FilmsRETROSPECTIVE–Documentary–24 Frames IN COMPETITION–Short–A Blink of an Eye IN COMPETITION–Feature–A Man of Integrity RETROSPECTIVE–Documentary–About The Salesman OFFICIAL SELECTION–Documentary–Advantage IN COMPETITION–Short–AFAR IN COMPETITION–Short–Animal IN COMPETITION–Short–Birthday Night IN COMPETITION–Short–Blue Sky, Clean - [4th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/4th/) - The 4th Persian Film Festival opened with the highly anticipated Australian premiere of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s award-winning feature The President. The festival hosted eight national and international guests, including Alireza Amini and Bita Beigi from Iran, Saeed Sourati and Nora Niasari from Australia, and Alexandria Bombach from the USA. The festival guests engaged audiences in Q&A - [2nd Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/2nd/) - The 2nd Persian Film Festival presented 35 films and showcased them over eleven days. The festival hosted acclaimed Iranian actress and filmmaker Niki Karimi and screened her feature films. The sessions followed Q&As with the filmmaker allowing audiences to gain insight into her artistic endeavours. The festival’s retrospective program offered audiences an opportunity to review - [1st Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/1st/) - The 1st Persian International Film Festival was inaugurated in Sydney in February 2012 at Dendy Opera Quays. Over four days thousands of audiences with diverse backgrounds attended the festival. The opening and closing nights of the festival included an artistic performance curated by Dr Nasser Palangi. The program lit up Sydney’s most prominent promenade with - [3rd Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/3rd/) - The 3rd Persian Film Festival was as dramatic as a great film. We had cries and laughs, stories which left us in a heavy state and those which gave us hope. We had audiences who were here for the first time and those who attended every session. Overall it was a great journey and a - [Bahram Tavakoli](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/bahram-tavakoli/) - Bahram Tavakoli is an Iranian film director. Winning numerous awards, he is a well-established filmmaker of the new generation of Iranian cinema. One of his most successful works is 'Here without Me (2011). It is a breathtaking adaptation of Tennessee Williams 'The Glass Menagerie' which was not only directed, but also written by Tavakoli. - [Rouhollah Hejazi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/rouhollah-hejazi/) - Born in Abadan in 1979, Rouhollah Hejazi directed his first short film, “Start”, in 1995, then followed up with ten more, shown at domestic and international festivals. He directed television dramas before making his debut feature film “Among the Clouds” in 2008, which garnered several awards at festivals around the world. His second feature film, "The Private Life of Mr. & Mrs. M” (2012), third film, "The Wedlock” (2013) and “Death of the Fish” (2015), were shown at numerous international film festivals too. - [Saeed Sourati](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/saeed-sourati/) - Saeed Sourati was born in 1979 in Tehran. Saeed was exposed to the cinema from Youth Cinema Society since 1999 and furthered his career at the Art Centre (Hoze Honari) as a cinematographer of documentary films and director assistant of drama movies. He professionally worked as a writer, director and producer of numerous commercial documentary films. “Night Outdoor” is a recent drama film in which Saeed was a producer manager. “How can be both” is the second short film he has written and directed. “How can be both” is about a couple who are not willing to live in Iran and intend to immigrate to Australia. - [Mohsen Abdulvahab](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohsen-abdulvahab/) - Mohsen Abdolvahab was born in 1957 in Tehran. Abdolvahab is a graduate in Editing from the IRIB University. He began his cinematic career in 1980, editing over 30 documentary and feature films and producing 23 short documentaries and award-winning feature film documentaries. Previous film collaborations with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad include, Nargess and Gilaneh. He also won the Best film Prize at 1st Persian Film Festival in 2012. - [Arian Vazirdaftari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/arian-vazirdaftari/) - Arian Vazirdaftari was born in Tehran in 1988, studied industrial design and subsequently directing at the Film School in Tehran and completed his master’s degree at the Tehran University of Dramatic Arts. He works as a writer, director and producer. After several short films, including the highly acclaimed 2016 NOT YET and 2018 LIKE A GOOD KID: MESLE BACHE ADAM, BI ROYA is his first feature length film and was immediately invited extra for the Orizzonti section. - [Hossein Shahabi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/hossein-shahabi/) - Born in 1965 in Tabriz, Hossein Shahabi is a graduate of Music from Tehran University. He started his career in 2005, making a short film, Votive Offering. His other short films are Raining Tree (2007), Reflection (2009) and The Last Word (2010). Shahabi has also been involved in directing some tele-films for Iranian TV, The Photo (2005), The Shadows (2006), The Secret (2008), The Glass Night (2010) and For the Sake of Mehdi (2011). Bright Day (2013) is his first feature film which was well received by Iranian film critics and audiences of the 31st Fajr Film Festival in Tehran in February 2013. - [Hassan Fathi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/hassan-fathi/) - Born in 1959 in Tehran, Hassan Fathi was the director of many popular TV series such as Horses Never Die, Mulla Sadra, The Tenth Night and Brighter than Darkness. Fathi went through a different experience in his debut feature, Marriage Iranian Style which was a successful romantic comedy. After his successful TV series, Zero Degree Turn, Fathi made his second feature film, The Postman Does not Ring the Doorbell Three Times in 2009. - [Mehdi Ganji](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mehdi-ganji/) - Born in Iran 1978. Mehdi Ganji is a 2002 filmmaking graduate from the Tehran University of Art. Having specialized in imagery, he started working as a cameraman and film editor in fiction films and in documentaries, working with various Iranian channels and International networks and television like Newsweek, Arte and etc. He is member of Iranian Documentary Film Society. - [Ali Khameparast Fard](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-khameparast-fard/) - Born 1985 in Iran. He started Filmmaking from 2003. He made some short films. He made his first feature film in 2015. - [Alireza Amini](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/alireza-amini/) - Born in 1970 in Tehran, Amini is a graduate of stage directing. He has made more than 20 short and documentary films and he was assistant director to Bahman Ghobadi’s "A Time for the Drunken Horses." His debut feature film, “Letters of the Wind” (2002) and then his second feature film, “Tiny Snowflakes” (2003) were shown at many film festivals around the world (including Locarno, Busan, Thessaloniki) and brought him international recognition. - [Jamshid Mahmoudi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/jamshid-mahmoudi/) - Jamshid Mahmoudi was born on March 29, 1983 in Parvan, Afghanistan. Hardly one-year-old his family sought refuge in Pakistan and then in Iran. He developed his passion for cinema from a very early age. Having obtained his high-school diploma he passed the entrance exam for Tehran’s University of Art but preferred working on projects with his film producer brother, Navid Mahmoudi. He was assistant director before directing his first TV film in 2008. In 2012, thanks to Navid’s support, he directed his first feature, ‘A few Cubic Metres of Love’, inspired by a true story that took place in Kabul. - [Abolhassan Davoodi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/abolhassan-davoodi/) - Born in 1955 in Iran, Abolhassan Davoodi studied cinema in School of Cinema & Television and Sociology in Beheshti university. He wrote film criticism and reviews in Soroosh & Film magazines for 5 years before professionally starting his filmmaking career. He was the head of the guild of Iranian script writers (1991-1995), the Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds (Khaneh Cinema) (1999-2002), and the head of the board of directors of the Iranian independent film maker association. He was also on the board of directors of the Iranian alliance of Motion Picture Guilds. - [Mohsen Gharaie](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohsen-gharaie/) - Mohsen Gharaei is a writer and director born in Iran in 1984. He is a graduate of Mining Engineering. In 2006, he started his film career as an assistant director, working with prestigious Iranian filmmakers such as Bahram Bayzaei, Reza Mirkarimi, Majid Majidi and Mohsen Abdolvahab. Next to directing, he has worked on casting, editing and line production for various film projects. Gharaei co-directed his first feature film Don’t Be Tired! (2013). Gharaei’s next film, Blockage (2017) won the award for Best Film in the New Currents section of the Busan International Film Festival. In 2019 he co-wrote Castle of Dreams with Mohammad Davoudi. They won Best Screenplay at the Fajr Film Festival and received his first APSA nomination. - [Afshin Hashemi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/afshin-hashemi/) - Afshin Hashemi was born in 1975 in Iran. He has MA in Directing and Acting/ Art University (Cinema-Theater ). He is an actor, play writer, musician and director. Don’t Be Tired is directorial debut of Afshin Hashemi. - [Mo Scarpelli](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mo-scarpelli/) - Mo is a non-fiction director whose curiosity of humans and underexposed spaces has led her to film and photograph in more than a dozen countries around the world. Mo recently Co-Directed and Produced the award-winning feature-length film, FRAME BY FRAME, about four Afghan photojournalists on the forefront of Afghanistan's fledgling free press. The film had its world premiere in 2015 at SXSW Film Festival before screening at Hot Docs, AFI DOCS, BFI London Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and 60+ others around the world. The film has garnered more than a dozen jury and audience awards as well as a Cinema Eye Honors nomination, and continues to show in theaters and festivals, with a digital and TV release coming soon. Mo is a recipient of the Speranza Foundation Female Filmmaker Award, the Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision (Seattle Intl Film Festival), and the Reel Women Direct Prize (Cleveland Intl Film Festival). - [Alexandria Bombach](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/alexandria-bombach/) - Alexandria Bombach is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and editor from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her feature-length documentary, On Her Shoulders (2018), won Best Directing in the US Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. - [Amin Palangi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/amin-palangi/) - Amin Palangi is an award-winning filmmaker known for his intimate and captivating portrait of people in extreme circumstances. His debut documentary, LOVE MARRIAGE IN KABUL, won the Audience Award at Sydney Film Festival, Best Direction from the Australian Directors Guild and was released theatrically in Australia and broadcast internationally in over twenty-six countries. His credits also include several award-winning short films such as BREAK, CLOSE DISTANCE and his AFTRS graduating film VAFADAR (LOYAL), and web series including Screen Australia funded I LUV U BUT. As a cinematographer, Amin received a Cine Award for AFGHANISTAN BY CHOICE, directed by Sundance and Emmy Award winner Alexandria Bombach. Amin's feature film TENNESSINE released in cinemas in April 2024. - [Tiyam Yabandeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/tiyam-yabandeh/) - Tiyam Yabandeh Jahroumi was born on January 27, 1984 in Iran. He is a director and writer, known for Impression-xps160 (2013), Rangan 99 (2015) and Cinema and Alot of Blindness (2009) - [Baran Sarmad](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/baran-sarmad/) - Baran Sarmad was born in 1994 in Iran. She is one of the founders of “the CHILICK” artistic group. Her first experienced as a director has been "must black". To this date, she has written a long piece, a short animation, and 2 other short films. - [Elika Mehranpour](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/elika-mehranpour/) - Elika Mehranpour is an award-winning independent animation filmmaker and story board artist with over a decade of experience. - [Masoud Moein](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/masoud-moein/) - Masoud Moein was born in Arak in Iran. He holds a diploma from SHAHID AVINI ART SCHOOL and Bachelor of Animation from IRIB UNIVERSITY. He has been working as an Art Director and Animator, specialising in Character and Concept development. - [Zanyar Azizi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/zanyar-azizi/) - Born in 1986, Zanyar Aziz is a holder of Diploma in Acting and Photography from Iran's Azad Institute. After completing a course in Directing at Masoud Kimiaie Institute he has been making films since 2008. - [Bita Beigi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/bita-beigi/) - Bita Beigi, born in 1987 in Tehran. She studied film directing, and started her career with acting in a supporting role in the movie ‘At the End of the Eighth Avenue’ directed by Alireza Amini. In 2007 she had a role in ‘Not Much Time to Breaking the Fast’ directed by Hamed Hosseini, then in the television-series ‘Mirage’ by Hossein Soheilizadeh as the leading role. She started her career as director with making the short film ‘Napkin’ then a documentary in the subject of human relationships in the virtual world, then the short drama ‘Constant Angle’. - [Amir Vahedi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/amir-vahedi/) - Amir Vahedi was born in 1982 in Tabriz - Iran. He started animation at the age of 25. He graduated with an Arts Degree (Graphics & Handy art craft) in 2012 where he has gained considerable multiple skills in animation and design. - [Amirhossein Torabi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/amirhossein-torabi/) - Amirhosain Torabi was born in 1977 in Tehran – Iran. He studied cinema in Tehran and has made 15 short film and over 500 advertisements. - [Meghdad Asadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/meghdad-asadi/) - Born 1982 in Shiraz, Iran and currently living in Rochester, NY, award winner director, animator and Student Academy Awards nominee, Meghdad Asadi Lari started his higher education in 2000 by studying Electrical Engineering in Shiraz University and continued to M.Sc. in Communications Engineering. During his graduate studies, he discovered his passion for graphic design and animation. Familiar with all aspects of aesthetics, his artistic and creative abilities have been recognized by professionals as fast and precise. Not long after completing his technical degrees did he decide to step into the art field as a creative professional. He started his MFA in Computer Animation and directed and produced several animations which played at festivals worldwide and gained several national and international awards. He finished his MFA degree in 2014 with faculty awards for his thesis film, Simorgh. - [Behnam Behzadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/behnam-behzadi/) - Behnam Behzadi was born in 1972 in Boroujen, Iran and obtained a diploma in cinema from the faculty of “Seda & Cima” in Tehran in1995. He began his artistic activities in the theatre and photography whilst directing shorts in 8mm & 16mm formats as well as video.Over the past few years he’s written scripts, worked in editing and collaborated with various scriptwriters including Bahman Ghobadi with whom he was co-script writer for the film ‘Nive mang/Half Moon’. Behnam Behzadi has also worked in marketing and advertising and was for some time artistic director of the campaign against cruelty to children. - [Saman Salur](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/saman-salur/) - Saman Salur (born 1976 Boroujerd) is an award winning Iranian filmmaker and screen writer. His first long movie, Residents of Silent Land won award in Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraine. His feature film Several Kilos of Dates for Burial Ceremony won Golden Leopard and Special Prize of the Jury at Locarno International Film Festival 2006. - [Pirooz Kalantari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/pirooz-kalantari/) - Born in 1953 in Tehran, Pirooz Kalantari is a graduate of Tehran's High College of Film & TV in 1974. He started his career as journalist since 1986 and he collaborated with Film Monthly mostly as a film critic. He made his first documentary, The Refugee in 1992 and the film got two awards: Press Prize of the 3rd Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival of 1994 and the Bronze Torch of Best Documentary at the 5th Pyongyang Film Festival of 1995. He made his second documentary, Lasting Story in 1993 and co-directed To Whom You Show These Films in 1994 together with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. The Little Story-Tellers of a Strange Village was completed in 1995 and Unfinished Shot in 1996. Mr. Kalantari made Story of Another Shoe in 1997 and his internationally successful film; Alone in Tehran (1999) was shown in many film festivals around the world. He completed his controversial film, That Is Life in 2002 that deals with college students in Tehran and their lost ideals, dreams and hopes. His next documentary films are Tarseh (2003), Gharghab (2004), Tehran, A Few Richter (2006), In Un-ended Streets (2009), Reading Salinger’s Works at City Park (2011), Four Views (2012) and If There Were Not the Aged-People (20120.Pirooz Kalantari has been the founding member of Iranian Society of Documentary Film Directors and has made several researches on the history of Iranian cinema and especially Iranian documentary cinema. - [Marjane Satrapi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/marjane-satrapi-2/) - Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. - [Massoud Bakhshi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/massoud-bakhshi/) - Massoud Bakhshi was born in 1972 in Tehran. He holds a special place in Iranian cinema, which is abounding with creativity. His talent becomes obvious in his documentaries, going from serious drama (IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN) to the most biting and caustic humour (TEHRAN HAS NO MORE POMEGRANATES!) and in his first fiction short film (BAG DAD BARBER). A RESPECTABLE FAMILY is his first feature film. - [Davood Khayyam](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/davood-khayyam/) - Davood Khayam is an Iranian film director known for 2016 movie Mohey. He wrote and directed the short film Aquarium. Is the Managing director and Head of the board of directors of Seven White Ribbon filmmaking institute. - [Ann Marie Fleming](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/annmarie-fleming/) - Ann Marie Fleming is an award-winning Canadian visual artist, writer, director, animator and cross-platform media maker who works in a variety of genres (animation, experimental, documentary and drama). Ann Marie’s 2016 animated feature Window Horses, about a young Canadian poet discovering her family history, received awards all over the world. - [Sam French](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sam-french/) - A founding director of Development Pictures based in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sam French is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared on Channel 4, Al Jazeera, National Geographic, HBO, and other broadcast outlets. In 2011, Sam directed “Buzkashi Boys,” one of the first narrative fiction films to be shot entirely on location in Kabul with a mixed Western and Afghan crew. This film was the first project of the Afghan Film Project, a non-profit NGO that Sam co-founded in 2010 to help train Afghan filmmakers and foster Afghanistan’s film industry. - [Navid Danesh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/navid-danesh/) - Navid Danesh was born in Oroumieh, Iran in 1985. During university time he got enthusiastic about cinema. After graduation in English Translation in 2006, he started his activities as a filmmaker by making short films in Asghar FARHADI and Abbas KIAROSTAMI's filmmaking workshops. His short films included: Tree (2007), Circle (2008), The Wind Will Carry Me, Even Behind The Window (2009), The Wind Carries Me Wherever It Wants (2010), Duet (2012-2013). - [Ehsan Jafari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ehsan-jafari/) - Ehsan Jafari was born in 12th September 1982, he began his cinematic carrier by working in a 35mm film laboratory in Iran for 8 years. He then moved on to becoming an assistant editor on several feature films. His filmography includes: Tow Phones (1999), No Name (2001), Waiting for… (2005), Play of Cards (2007), Stop! (2008), Empty Room (2008), The Wall (2009), The Boxes (2011). - [Ruhollah Masroor](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ruhollah-masroor/) - Ruhollah Masroor is a young photographer that has worked as cameraman for the past 6 years. He enjoys the experience of working behind the scenes with famous Iranian directors as film editor and sound recorder. - [Esmaeel Monsef](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/esmaeel-monsef/) - Esmaeel Monsef, born in Iran in 1976, is a graduate of the Behandish Cinema School of Tehran. A founding member of the Association of Independent Iranian Filmmakers, he has edited over 40 shorts, documentaries and features and received numerous festival awards for his first short film, 'OYAN'. - [Hiwa Aminnejad](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/hiwa-aminnejad/) - Hiwa Aminnejad was born to a Kurdish middle class family in Baneh, Iranian Kurdistan, in 1973. He qualified in film direction from the Iranian Young Cinema Society in Tabriz. Being both Kurdish and Iranian he is fascinated by the everyday life of Iranian Kurds as they confront the contradictions of tradition, the effects of war and the peculiarities of their situation as an ethnic group spread over several countries. He is part of a group of Iranian directors contributing to the development of a cinema inspired by Kurdish traditions, landscapes and subjects. - [Farshid Akhlaghipour](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/farshid-akhlaghipour/) - Farshid is an independent Iranian/Australian filmmaker, an alumnus of Victorian College of Arts (VCA). He was born in Tehran, Iran. He started his career as a short film director with making narrative and experimental shorts. He directed 15 short films and documentaries and participated in a variety of film festivals around the world. In 2018 he has been awarded the Special Mention Award in the prestigious Camerimage Film Festival for Pain is Mine short film. He is known for making films tackling ‘difficult’ subjects but all with a strongly inquiring and empathetic dimension. While such subjects may be difficult, they present a sought-after alternative to the standard fare of conventional film making. Farshid’s first feature film From Music into Silence has been screened in Australian cinemas in 2019 and shown in festivals all around the world. This film was well-received by prominent film critics such as David Stratton. - [Mania Akbari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mania-akbari/) - Mania Akbari is an Iranian filmmaker, artist, writer, and curator whose works explore women's rights, marriage, sexual identity, disease and body image. Her style, in contrast to the long tradition of melodrama in Iranian cinema, is rooted in the visual arts and autobiography. - [Bahman Kiarostami](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/bahman-kiarostami/) - Bahman Kiarostami (born 1978, Tehran) made his first film ‘Morteza Momayez: Father of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Design’ in 1996. His films have been shown at numerous international film festivals and the focus of his documentaries have been primarily on art and music, but also cover the visible yet obscured and unnoticed details which define post revolutionary Iran. He was recently the winner of Best Documentary at the London Iranian Film Festival (2011) and his documentary ‘Shiraz’as part of ‘Taste of Iran series’ was voted as Best Documentary of the year by the viewers of BBC World news. Bahman was also the recipient of Best Director Award at Middle East Film Festival (2003). - [Mohsen Amiryousefi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohsen-amiryousefi/) - Born in 1972 in Abadan, Mohsen Amiryousefi is a graduate of “Mathematics” from Isfahan University. He started making short and documentary films since 1997 and Stone Hands (2000) was a great success at home and abroad. His first feature film, Bitter Dream (2004) was selected for Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and then screened at 50 more film festivals around the world and collected 10 international prizes. His second feature film, Fire-Maker (2007-2010) received Innovation Award of Montreal Film Festival. In 2012, he’s completed two documentaries, My Home and one episode of Kahrizak, Four Views. Mohsen is now involved in production of his third feature film in Tehran. - [Pouran Derakshandeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/pouran-derakshandeh/) - Pouran Derakhshandeh was born in 1951 in Iran. She is a director and producer, known for Hiss Dokhtarha Faryad Nemizanand (2013), Under the Smoky Roof (2017) and A Candle in the Wind (2004). - [Anastasija Bräuniger](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/anastasija-brauniger/) - Anastasija Harrowna Bräuniger was born in 1988 in Berlin. She grew up in Moscow, South England and Germany. She studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock and during her studies produced own plays and performances. 2013 Anastasija founded the Berlin based artist’s group “flying pig corporation”, which works with actors, musicians and authors. In 2014 she received the Proskenion Nachwuchsförderpreis for performing arts. After working two years intensively as a theatre actress and playing major roles, she decided to try out for the renowned Ernst Busch School Berlin to study directing. She was accepted and has begun her studies in autumn 2016. Anastasija continues to work on own performances and own exhibitions of her art work and photography. She is also a member of the Young Berlin Council in the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin. - [Oktay Baraheni](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/oktay-baraheni/) - Oktay Baraheni (born 1974) is an Iranian Film director and writer . He is a graduate of the Fine Arts York University Toronto, Canada with a degree in Cinema, His successful career includes several feature films, several short films and a documentary Khatab Be Parvaneha, which is a well-known Iranian poet and writer in relation to his father, Reza Baraheni, As well as him first feature film was The Pole Khaab, which was screened in the new film section of the Fajr Film Festival in 2015 And in 2016, its public release began, He also has a background in journalism. - [Mohsen Nabavi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohsen-nabavi/) - Mohsen Nabavi is an actor, known for Under Eyelid (2015), Lifeline (2011) and Paper Boats (2010). - [Roozbeh Misaghi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/roozbeh-misaghi/) - Roozbeh Misaghi was born in Tehran, Iran, where he studied his bachelor’s degree in Sociology, worked as an independent filmmaker in commercials, short films, and music videos. His passion for filmmaking led him to move to London, United Kingdom, where he studied his Master’s degree in film directing and worked on several short films and commercials as the producer, director and writer. - [Mohammad Farahani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohammad-farahani/) - Mohammad Farahani was born in Tehran, Iran. He was only 3 years old when his grandfather took him to cinema and from that very first time he was attracted by all the magic he watched on the silver screen. He started to work in the film industry from 2003 by being an assistant director to famous filmmakers like Majid Majidi, Hassan Fathi and Mohamad Reza Honarmand. He learned the fundamentals of filmmaking practically on the set. In 2013, after working in the film industry as assistant director, producer and distributor for many years, he decided to produce his own work. He wrote and directed a short film called Dozdi (2013), which was a huge success. It was selected by top rated film festivals around the world and it received many awards from them. After that, he continued his filmmaking path by directing more successful short films. - [Mohsen Bagheri Dastgerdi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohsen-bagheri-dastgerdi/) - Mohsen Bagheri Dastgerdi. Date of birth, 10 July 1984, Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari – Iran. Iranian Youth Cinema Society (IYCS) Studies Graduate. The writer of more than 10 short scripts and one feature screenplay. The writer and director of 6 short films. - [Shahram Shah Hosseini](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/shahram-shah-hosseini/) - Shahram Shah hosseini was born on 1973 in Tehran. He started his career by working as assistant director for well known Iranian directors such as Bahram Beizaei, and Bahman Ghobadi. He has made several short films which won some awards in Iran. Afterwards he directed 3 feature films which were among best-selling films of the year in Iran. The girl’s house is his 4th feature film which is a different film in compare with his previous films. The arose lots of arguments in Iran about it’s theatrical release. - [Ida Panahandeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ida-panahandeh/) - Ida Panahandeh was born in Tehran, Iran on September 8th, 1979. She obtained a degree in Film Photography in 2002 and a master’s in Film Direction in 2005, both from the Arts University of Tehran, where she began her film career with several short films. She has, throughout her work, focused on women's rights, as with her first feature ' Nahid', a film which won her worldwide acclaim. 'Nahid' was selected for the 'Un Certain Regard' section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the special prize of ' Prix de l'Avenir'. - [Mohammad Kart](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohammad-kart/) - Director, Writer - [Azadeh Mousavi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/azadeh-mousavi/) - Azadeh Moussavi was born in 1980 in Tehran. He has a BA in directing from the Cinema & Theatre Faculty of the Tehran University of Arts. He started working as the Assistant Director and Script Advisor in a short, feature, fiction and documentary films, and has also directed two short fiction and one short documentary film. His mid-length documentary From Iran, A Separation was shown at different festivals around the world and received awards. Finding Farideh is his first feature documentary film. - [Sonia K Hadad](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sonia-k-hadad/) - Sonia K. Hadad is an Iranian writer and director. She studied Film and Media Arts (M.F.A) at Emerson College in Boston. She was born in 1989, in Tehran, and was primarily educated in her native country. She holds diplomas in Physics/ Mathematics and graphic design. In 2005 Sonia started her professional theatre acting career and has played in theatres, public performances, telefilms, and TV shows. In 2009 she completed her B.A in dramatic literature from Azad University of Art and Architecture. While pursuing her bachelor’s degree she participated in different professional Filmmaking, Acting, Installation, and editing workshops. Writing short stories for magazines and acting led her to her main interests: Film and Installation Art. Sonia moved to the U.S. in 2013 to continue her education, and she began making short films. In her most recent works, Sonia makes an effort to explore people’s inner lives, women’s social and personal issues, shame, and struggles with their deepest fears through different art forms and media. Her latest film, EXAM (2019), premiered at the Toronto IFF. - [Nima Javidi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/nima-javidi/) - Nima Javidi was born in 1980. A qualified mechanical engineer, Javidi began making short films in 1999 and has made Marathon Paralyzed Champion (1999), A Call for O (2001), The Poor Earth (2004), Changeable Weather (2007), Crack (2009) and Catnap (2010). He has also directed two documentaries, Person (2007) and An Ending to an Ancient Profession (2007) and more than 30 television commercials. Melbourne (2014), which he wrote and directed, is his feature film debut. It won Best Film at the Cairo Film Festival and Best Script at the Stockholm Film Festival and opened the Venice Film Critic’s Week. - [Mohammad Reza Aslani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohammad-reza-aslani/) - Mohammad Reza Aslani (born December 9, 1943, in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian filmmaker, art theorist, graphic designer and poet known mostly for his experimental films and documentaries. He is also the co-writer of Espacementalism (the Poem of Imagination/She'er-e-Hajm) manifesto and one of the main poets of the New Wave Poetry of Iran alongside Yadollah Royaee, Fereydoun Rahnema and Ahmadreza Ahmadi. Although he never signed the manifesto. - [Mehrdad Oskouei](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mehrdad-oskouei/) - Mehrdad Oskouei is an Iranian filmmaker, producer, photographer and researcher born in Tehran in 1969 and later graduating in film direction from the University of Arts. His films have been screened at numerous festivals both at home and abroad to great critical acclaim, making him one of the major Iranian documentary makers. In 2010 Oskouei received the Dutch Prince Claus Award for his achievements. He is a founding member of the Institute of Anthropology and Culture and has sat on several international film festival juries as well as being a cultural ambassador for the United Nation's humanitarian committee UCHA. He also teaches at film schools around Iran and is active in the Tehran Arts and Culture Association. - [Mahnaz Mohammadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mahnaz-mohammadi/) - Well-known for her provocative documentaries on social issues as well as her tireless activism, Iranian director Mahnaz Mohammadi has made headlines in the likes of The Guardian, the Hollywood Reporter or Variety, and has been supported by Amnesty International and the French Directors Guild (Société des réalisateurs de films) among others. Mohammadi wrote and directed her first short documentary, Women without Shadows, in 2003. She instantly received praise at international film festivals for her depiction of homeless and abandoned women in a state-run shelter, and continued documenting everyday lives and struggles of people in her next couple of films. The award-winning feature documentary Travelogue was shot on a train going from Tehran to Ankara, where Mohammadi questioned passengers about the reasons why they decided to flee the country. The film premiered in 2010 at the “A Day in Tehran” event in Paris, with the director in attendance, which became one of the reasons for Iranian authorities to ban Mohammadi from leaving the country and from producing any more films. The avid women’s rights activist also contributed to Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s documentary We Are Half the Iran’s Population, which portrayed the demands of Iranian women in the 2009 presidential election. - [Siamak Etemadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/siamak-etemadi/) - Siamak Etemadi was born in Tehran, Iran. In 1995 he moved to Athens, Greece, where he lives to this day. He studied cinema in the UK, and Greece. He has also followed seminars on acting, editing and photography. From 2004 to 2011 he worked extensively as assistant director (1st & 2nd) and production manager in various feature films, TV series, and series of documentaries. He also had occasional work experiences as actor, both in theatre and cinema. His last short film CAVO D’ ORO had its world premier in Locarno International Film Festival – Competition in 2012 and was nominated for the Best Short Film in the Greek Film Academy Awards. - [Homayoun Ghanizadeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/homayoun-ghanizadeh/) - Homayoun Ghanizadeh (Born, in 1980) is an Iranian avant-garde Film and Theatre director, scriptwriter, and actor. His first movie "A Hairy Tale" has received the special jury prize for the best script from the 35th Warsaw film festival and also has been rewarded with some other awards from international film festivals around the world. His film was successful to attract many critics' attention to the movie and its production technique. Homayoun has written and directed lots of theatres that have been performed and received several awards at international theatre festivals. His theatre projects have been performed in many other countries around the world such as England, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Russia, China, and India. He has been working with the Estonian theater company RAAAM for more than 10 years. "Antigone", "Mississippi Dies Seated", "Daedalus and Icarus", "Caligula", "Waiting for Godot", and "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" are some of his works. - [Kamran Heidari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/kamran-heidari/) - Kamran Heidari Was Born In Gachsaran, Near Shiraz In 1978 . He Is A Freelance Documentary Filmmaker And Photographer, With An Interest In Street Photography, Graffiti And Ethno-Music. His Work Focuses On Film And Photography About The People Of Shiraz (Fars Province) And The South Of Iran. ‘My Name Is Negahdar Jamali And I Make Westerns’ (2012), His First Feature medium Length Documentary Was Screened In Many Festivals Around The World, Among Which Busan International Film Festival And Rotterdam. - [Sarah Tabibzadeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sarah-tabibzadeh/) - Sarah Tabibzadeh is known for Tchisti (2020), Lady with Flower-Hair (2012) and Kiss Me (2021). - [Sahar Sotoodeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sahar-sotoodeh/) - Sahar Sotoodeh (born 1989) is an Iranian actress and filmmaker. She received her bachelor degree from the Art University of Tehran in music. After finishing university, she started learning acting and screenwriting while she was participating in many theatres and shows as an actress and assistant director. In 2014 she appeared in front of the camera for the first time in a short film called “Baby”, which was candidated for the Venice Film Festival and also won the award for the best actress from the Cervignano Film Festival. Ever since, she continued working as an actress, assistant director and script supervisor for various plays. Moreover, due to her experiences in both fields of music and theatre, she has actively been involved as an assistant director, actress and songwriter in the musical works of “Oliver Twist” and “Les Miserables”. Furthermore, she made her first short film in 2018 called "Hedieh", which has been nominated for various festivals around the world. - [Ali Paknia](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-paknia/) - Ali Paknia was born in 1993 in Iran. He studied directing and acting at 8mm Film School. - [Faezeh Alavi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/faezeh-alavi/) - Faezeh Alavi is an Iranian filmmaker and actress, Faezeh gained her bachelor's degree in Theatre Directing at Sooreh Art University and a Master of Arts in puppet theatre at the Art University of Tehran. Faezeh arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 2016 to pursue her career in filmmaking. - [Siavash Shahabi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/siavash-shahabi/) - Siavash Shahabi was born in Tabriz/Iran in 23rd August, 1993. When he was studying in mathematics in high school, simultaneously and following to his interest, started his filmmaking. He continued his education in university and received The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing. His works often search for the psychological effects of human attitude on each other, based on their social status. He has made eight experimental, documentary and fiction short films. Participating in several national and international festivals, he has received awards for them. - [Kaveh Tehrani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/kaveh-tehrani/) - Kaveh Tehrani (b. 1978 in Tehran, Iran) is a Norwegian-Iranian filmmaker. He holds a bachelor degree in film and literature studies from the University of Oslo, along with a degree from the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark. Tehrani has written and directed the short films 1994 (2010), Victor (2014) and The Manchador (2019). He has won several awards at various international film festivals, and his films have also screened on BBC Persian and Norwegian National Television (NRK). For 1994 Tehrani won the National Film Award Amanda for best short film. - [Ziba Karamali](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ziba-karamali/) - Ziba is known for her role as the leading actress in Lottery (2018) a film that not only got attention of the film reviewers and juries but also holds the record of the most sales in the Fajr film festival (the most prestigious film festival in Iran) for all the time. Despite her good start in acting, she doesn't want to leave her main point of interest, to tell stories and influence. Filmmaking. Emad, a 2018 Soore University graduate, is also well known among Iranian short film makers because of his participation as cinematographer in several short projects. They met each other in a short project. They find that they have a lot of common social concerns, as well as common sense about their artistic visions. Those lead them to work together on the Bater as their first film. A film that, despite most of the well known Iranian shorts and features, not only talks about Iran but also about a subject that involves every society. - [Farnoosh Abedi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/farnoosh-abedi/) - Farnoosh Abedi was born in 1985 in Isfahan/Iran. He has made more than 20 short animated films and TV series, documentaries and one Feature Animated. His films were presented and screened in more than 500 domestic and international film festivals and received 220 awards. - [Noora Niasari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/noora-niasari/) - Noora Niasari is a Writer/Director based between Melbourne and Tehran. She holds a Bachelor in Architecture from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Masters in Film & TV from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Nora started her career making documentaries in Lebanon including BEIRUT, UNDER THE BRIDGE awarded ‘Special Jury Prize’ and ‘Best Director Documentary’ at the 11th Beirut International Film Festival. In 2015 she was selected for the Abbas Kiarostami filmmaking workshop in Barcelona and her narrative short THE PHOENIX (SIMORGH) premiered at the 64th Melbourne International Film Festival in the Accelerator program for emerging directors. In 2017, her first long form documentary, CASA ANTÚNEZ (ANTÚNEZ HOUSE) competed in the Official Selection of the 2017 Sheffield Doc/Fest where she was nominated for the prestigious New Talent Award. WATERFALL is Nora’s latest narrative short, produced by Fete Films and funded by Screen Australia’s Hot Shots Program. SHAYDA is her debut feature film, premiering in the World Dramatic Competition of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. - [Amir Sarrafha](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/amir-sarrafha/) - Amir Sarrafha was born in Iran 1979. He received a Masters degree in Cinema in 2000 and has been making films and TV series ever since. - [Afshin Roshanbakht](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/afshin-roshanbakht/) - Afshin Roshanbakht was born in 1990 in Tehran. He has a graphic associate degree from Shahid Rajaee Lahijan University. He passed the online course of EXPLORE ANIMATION from London NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL. He began his professional work in field of photography and illustration from 2005. He has participated in several single and group exhibitions. He was introduced to the world of pixelation animations in 2006. After many experiences he was interested in Stop Motion ,he tried to focus his experiences on this field. He and his associates formed a group named “Halachin” in 2009 in Rasht city ,that works in the field of Stop Motion animation and miniature modeling specifically. - [Afshin Rezaei](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/afshin-rezaei/) - Afshin Rezaei was born in Lahijan in 1971. He began his activities as a journalist covering cinema news and moved on to be an assistant director and production manager on various Film and TV programs. Having worked with directors such as Mehdi Fakhimzadeh, Kioumars Pourahmad, Behnam Behzadi, Ali Mosaffa and many more he began making short films since 2009. - [Moein Karimoddini](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/moein-karimoddini/) - Mohammad Moein Karimoddini is known for Vaghti Abrha Payin Miayand (2012) and Tinar (2009). - [Shahrzad Dadgar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/shahrzad-dadgar/) - Shahrzad Dadgar is an award-winning director/writer/photographer. She has written and directed two short films, 500 Ounces of Gold and Highlight, which have been honored with multiple awards at worldwide festivals. - [Sam Kalantari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sam-kalantari/) - Many years of extensive experience in different genres in film making and cinema, is a simplified explanation of the characteristics of Sam Kalantari’s resume. In addition to making 15 documentaries and short movies, he also has the experience of directing and making advertisements for international companies to his credit. Among his achievements and pride are winning of the Crystal Phoenix «Simorgh-e-Boloorin - a prestigious award presented at the Tehran Fajr Film Festival» for the best documentary, in the Thirty eighth Fajr Film Festival. He also won the Special Judges award for «Best Director at the International Film Festival» and was awarded the «Best Director of Iranian Cinema award». These are some of Sam's success stories and achievements. He was also in the panel of judges international «Cinema Haghighat» film festivals and Fajr Festival, Sam has Membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is a professional photographer and holds international exhibitions. And last but certainly not least, he was the director of the ninth independent Iranian documentary film festival. - [Parisa Aminolahi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/parisa-aminolahi/) - Parisa Aminolahi (Tehran 1978) based in the Netherlands since 2008, is a freelance filmmaker, photographer and painter. She studied theatre stage design (BA) and animation (MA) at University of Art in Tehran and documentary filmmaking (MA) at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work covers a spectrum of themes such as displacement, exile, homeland, family and childhood memories, utilising childhood and old family photographs, self-portraits and her own family members as her subjects. Her mediums range from photography, documentary filmmaking, animation, painting and mixed media. - [Pouria Pishvaei](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/pouria-pishvaei/) - Pouria Pishvaei is known for Shortcut (2015), Birthday Night (2017) and Tasouki (2018). - [Vahid Jafari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/vahid-jafari/) - Vahid Jafari was born in 1991 in Rasht. He has a graphic associate degree from Lahijan university. He has a bachelor of graphic design degree from Anzali Elmi Karbordi university . He passed the online course of EXPLORE ANIMATION from London NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL. He began his professional work in the field of character design ,illustraion in 2003. He has takepart in many festivals and designed characters and mascots for commercial brands. He began to work in the field of animation with 2D technic in 2005. After several experience he tend to stop motion technic. He has been active in the field of making puppets and animation since the group was formed in 2009. - [Vida Irani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/vida-irani/) - Vida Irani has been an avid film enthusiast for most of her life. In 2015 she finally had the opportunity to direct her first short film Stigma, a documentary about the taboo subject of attempted suicide. Stigma screened at the 23rd Sydney Film School Festival and was nominated for best director. In 2016 Vida directed Duet, a short drama about the volatility of relationships in the bedroom. She is also an emerging production designer, currently enrolled in the production design stream of the advanced diploma of Sydney Film School. - [Asghar Farhadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/asghar-farhadi/) - Asghar Farhadi was born in Iran. He made his directorial debut with Dance in the Dust (2003) and Beautiful City (2004). About Elly (2009) won the Silver Bear for Best Director in Berlin. His film A Separation (2011) became a sensation. It got critical acclaim inside and outside of Iran; it was awarded many prizes, among them the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making him the first Iranian filmmaker ever to win an Oscar. Farhadi’s sixth movie, The Past, selected in competition at the Festival de Cannes, brought the Best Actress Prize for Bérénice Bejo (2013). Back in Iran, Farhadi made The Salesman, awarded Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini in Cannes (2016). The film also brought the second Oscar for Iran in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Farhadi’s last film, A Hero, in Competition at the Festival de Cannes last year, was awarded Grand Prix. - [Kaveh Mazaheri](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/kaveh-mazaheri/) - Born 1981 in Tehran, Iran. An interest in cinema led Mazaheri to begin writing film criticism for Iranian magazines after graduating from college in 2004. His first short film, Tweezers (2007). To date, he has made four independent short films and more than twenty short and long documentaries. He is the editor and author of a great many projects aside from his own. His most characteristic filmsinclude “A REPORT ABOUT MINA”(Documentary, 2015) and “RETOUCH”(Short fiction, 2017). “RETOUCH” won “Best Short Fiction Film” from Tribeca, Krakow, Palm Springs, Stockholm, Tirana, Traverse City, Zubroffka , Ojai, Fajr, IBAFF, Dublin, Short Waves, Mediawave, Cellu l’art, Sorsi Corti Film Festivals. - [Karim Lakzadeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/karim-lakzadeh/) - Born in 1986- Shiraz, Iran, after graduating from Theater School in 2004 he studied in the major of TV Directing. First he focused on story writing for the films and theater and his story; I AM SPELLED won the prize in and reciting the play Fortress, won the best Experimental Theater direction award. Then he made 6 shorts, which were successful in local festivals and award in the different festivals (details are in the filmography section), before making his first feature Foroud, as his graduation film. - [Omid Shams](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/omid-shams/) - Born in 1990, he began his education at the Youth Filmmaker Society(2012-2013). Omid Currently studies cinema at National Cinema School in Tehran. - [Ali Behrad](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-behrad/) - Ali Behrad was born on January 22, 1987 in Tehran, Iran. Ali is a director and writer, known for Imagine (2022) and Herman (2019). - [Maryam Zaree](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/maryam-zaree/) - Maryam Zaree was born in 1983 in Teheran/Iran. Fleeing political persecution, her mother brought Maryam with her to Germany when she was two. She grew up in Frankfurt am Main and studied acting in the renowned film school Konrad-Wolf in PotsdammBabelsberg. She has played lead roles in a dozen feature films, worked for theatre and Television and has been awarded for her performances. In 2018 she received a “Grimme Preis” for her performance in the TV show “4 Blocks.” Her first theatre play “Kluge Gefühle” received the Author’s Prize of the Heidelberg Stückemarkt and has been performed in multiple theaters. Born in Evin is her debut feature film. - [Ehsan Mirhosseini](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ehsan-mirhosseini/) - Ehsan Mirhosseini (born in August 20, 1985 in Ahvaz, Iran) is an Iranian screenwriter and film director. Raising up in a middle-class family, he started studying cinema at Iranian Youth Cinema Society in Tehran. While working as a film critic in Iranian Cinema magazines and newspapers Ehsan made his first short film titled Picking the Grape in 2007. Since then he has worked on many film projects as a screenwriter and assistant director. In 2015, Ehsan decided to focus more on screenwriting with Bardia Yadegari, they wrote 4 screenplays and directed a short film titled Unlimited Internet (2017) which was in the official selection of Tehran International Short Film Festival in 2017. Ehsan experienced his first film as an actor in The Golden Bear winner film of 2020 Berlin Film Festival “There Is No Evil” directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. - [Bardia Yadegari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/bardia-yadegari/) - Bardia Yadegari (born in September 27, 1980, Kermanshah Iran) is an Iranian screenwriter and film director. He started to work in the Iranian film industry as an assistant sound recordist in 2001. Later he shifted his direction to writing and so far he has proven himself as a poet, screenwriter and director. While working as a researcher and screenwriter in different formats of filmmaking, Bardia published his first book in 2016. He has also written several articles for foreign journals like Guardian. Bardia’s poems never get the license to be published in Iran. During the past years Bardia has worked on several feature films, documentary and short films as a screenwriter and director with acclaimed Iranian filmmakers. In 2020, he acted and assisted in There Is No Evil by Mohammad Rasoulof which won The Golden Bear of the 70th Berlin Film Festival. - [Mojgan Ilanlou](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mojgan-ilanlou/) - Born in Tehran, Iran, Sepideh Farsi moved to Paris to study mathematics. After several years of photography, she began making short films and documentaries, amongst which HARAT and TEHRAN WITHOUT PERMISSION, which both premiered in Locarno. Her first two features DREAMS OF DUST and THE GAZE premiered in Rotterdam. She then directed THE HOUSE UNDER THE WATER, followed by CLOUDY GREECE and has just finished a new feature film: RED ROSE. - [Jahangir Kosari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/jahangir-kosari/) - Jahangir Kosari was born in Tehran in 1950 and obtained a master’s in film direction from Tehran University’s School of Dramatic Art. After having worked in journalism, he went into both production management and film production, producing a wealth of critically acclaimed, successful movies. - [Ali Abbasi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-abbasi/) - Ali Abbasi was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran. He is a director and writer, known for Border (2018), Holy Spider (2022) and Shelley (2016). - [Sepideh Farsi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sepideh-farsi/) - Born in Tehran, Iran, Sepideh Farsi moved to Paris to study mathematics. After several years of photography, she began making short films and documentaries, amongst which HARAT and TEHRAN WITHOUT PERMISSION, which both premiered in Locarno. Her first two features DREAMS OF DUST and THE GAZE premiered in Rotterdam. She then directed THE HOUSE UNDER THE WATER, followed by CLOUDY GREECE and has just finished a new feature film: RED ROSE. - [Arsalan Amiri](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/arsalan-amiri/) - Born on April 22, 1975 in Kurdistan, Iran. Amiri holds a B.A. in Film Directing from Art University of Tehran and Master’s in Dramatic Literature from University of Tehran. In 2003, He began to write scripts, edit, and make documentaries. His first co-written feature script, Nahid (2015), directed by Ida Panahandeh, won the Promising Future Prize in Un Certain Regard at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. He continued his collaboration with Panahandeh in her last three films: Israfil (2017), The Nikaidos' Fall (2018- Japan & Hong Kong), and TiTi ‌ (2020) as co-writer, editor, and producer. He made his first feature film, Zalava in 2021 in Kurdistan of Iran. - [Milad Alami](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/milad-alami/) - Milad Alami was born in Iran 1982, grew up in Sweden and now lives in Denmark. He graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 2011. His films have been selected for numerous film festivals, amongst other Director’s Fortnight in Cannes, New York Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand and Karlovy Vary. His latest short film MOMMY premiered in competition at Gothenborg International Film Festival in January 2015 and won the Danish Academy Award for Best Short Film 2016. - [Sohrab Shahid Saless](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sohrab-shahid-saless/) - Sohrab Shaheed Salles or Sohrab Shahid-Saless was an Iranian film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian cinema in the 20th century. After 1976 he worked in the cinema of Germany and was an important component of the film diaspora working in the German industry. - [Maryam Esmikhani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/maryam-esmikhani/) - Maryam Esmikhani is known for All My Roots (2012). - [Emad Arad](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/emad-arad/) - Emad Arad is known for Barter (2021) and The Doll (2021). - [Atefeh Salehi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/atefeh-salehi/) - Born in 1989 in Sirjan, Iran. Atefeh Salehi holds a BA in Fashion design from Yazd Islamic Azad University and a MA in Dramatic Literature from The Science and Research Branch (SRB) of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran. She was interested in writing since she was a child and wrote her first stories at the age of eight. After completing her bachelor's degree and choosing the subject of costume design in Iran’s cinema for her dissertation, she pursued filmmaking and screenwriting seriously. She has made 3 short films and 1 documentary film. She has written more than ten short screenplays. She has also designed costumes for some short films. She is married and has a son. - [Ali Daraee](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-daraee/) - Born in 1991 in Iran, Ali studied at The Tehran University majoring in acting and participated in filmmaking courses at IYCS (Iran Young Cinema Society). Graveyard is his first short film. - [Mohammad Reza Khavari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohammad-reza-khavari/) - Mohammad Reza Khavari was Born in 1992. He is an Iranian screenwriter, editor, director, and producer. At the age of 19, he started film making by making no-budget films. Participating in The Oscar Winner Iranian Director; Asghar Farhadi's directing master class, motivated him to make her first short film "SABA". Official Selections in several film festivals including OSCAR and BAFTA Qualifying Film Festivals, winning two international awards for the best film, a nomination for the best actor award in 14th Grand Off Independent Film Festival, selecting as one the best films of the Sedicicorto Film Festival by the Italian magazine "La Settima Arte", are some of the honors of Mohammad Reza Khavari's first short film in the last two years. - [Reza Radjoo](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/reza-radjoo/) - Reza studied cinema at the Soureh College in Iran with a focus on editing and later studied screenwriting and storytelling. He has been nominated for the Best Screenplay Award at several festivals, including the Short Film Festival (Nahal) and (Tehran Short Film). - [Abbas Kiarostami](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/abbas-kiarostami/) - Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career as a filmmaker at the age of 30. Since then he has made many movies and has become one of the most important figures in contemporary Iranian film. He is also a major figure in the arts world, and has had numerous gallery exhibitions of his photography, short films and poetry. Though Kiarostami emerged in the West as a major filmmaker in the early ‘90s—with films like CLOSE-UP and THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES—he had already been making films in Iran for two decades. Born on June 22nd 1940 in Tehran, Kiarostami was interested in the arts from an early age. He won a painting competition at the age of eighteen, and left home to study at Tehran University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. As a designer and illustrator, Kiarostami worked throughout the ‘60s in advertising, making commercials, designing posters, creating credit titles for films (including Gheyshar by M. Kimiai), and illustrating children’s books. - [Bahram Beyzaie](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/bahram-beyzaie/) - Bahram Beyzaie was born in Tehran, Iran on 26 December 1938. He was introduced to the world of art when he was still very young. In high school he wrote two historical plays which eventually became his preferred method of writing. He then entered University of Tehran, but did not finish his studies due to lack of interest in the subject he was studying. It was then that he started researching Iranian theatre and epic literature. At the age of 21 he did an extensive research on the "Book of Kings" (Shahname) and Ta'azie which is Iranian traditional plays. He also studied the pre-Islamic history and familiarized himself with Persian painting. The next ten years of his life were dedicated to writing in various publications about Eastern Art and Iranian theatre. He also wrote a good number of articles about cinema which later became the subject of one of his books. It is during this time that Bayzaie wrote some of his masterpieces: "The Eight Voyage of Sinbad", "Banquet", "Serpant King", "Dolls", "Story of the Hidden Moon" and many more... In 1968 he was one of the first ones to join the controversial Iranian Writer's Guild ( Kanun-e Nevisandegan-e Iran ). He started his film career with a successful short named "Uncle Mustache" (Amoo Sibiloo) in 1970. Immidetly after that he directed and produced his masterpiece "Downpour" (Ragbaar) with the late Parviz Fannizadeh as its main character. Since then he has produced and directed 8 other movies and has made significant contribution to the development of cinema and theatre in Iran. Despite his popularity and knowledge, Bayzai has never been successful in gaining the support of the government, neither before nor after the revolution. After close to 20 years, two of his films "Death of Yazdgerd" and "Ballad of Tara" have still not been able to receive a screening permit. Both movies have been shelved due to the fact that they are not in accordance with the Islamic code currently in use in Iranian motion picture industry. "Bashu, the Little Stranger" was going to be his third film to be shelved. But it finally got a screening permit after the end of Iran-Iraq war. The movie is about a little boy who has lost his home and family to the war. - [Mohsen Makhmalbaf](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohsen-makhmalbaf/) - Born in Iran in 1957. Mohsen Makhmalbaf is a filmmaker, novelist, screenwriter, editor, producer and human rights activist. Since his debut as a filmmaker in 1983 he has directed more than 20 feature films in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, Turkey and several other countries. Winning over 50 awards at festivals world wide his films include "Gabbeh" (1996, Cannes Film Festival), "Kandahar" (2001) which was selected as one of the top 100 films of all time by TIME Magazine, and the acclaimed 2012 documentary "The Gardener". In addition to filmmaking Makhmalbaf lived in Afghanistan for a period of two years, carrying out numerous human rights projects including building schools and working towards a renewal of the Afghan cinema, which had been totally destroyed during the Taliban regime. The Iranian government has levied a ban on Makhmalbaf's works and has threatened his safety over the years. Since leaving Iran in 2005 in protest against the pressure of censorship, Makhmalbaf is based in London and Paris. - [Jafar Panahi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/jafar-panahi/) - Jafar Panahi, one of the most important independent filmmakers in Iran, identified with the Iranian New Wave film movement. His first full length feature film, The White Balloon (1995), written by the renowned Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, had its first round of critical acclaim when it earned the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Panahi was born in Mianeh, Iran, an Azerbaijani area outside of Tehran. His last three films, The Circle (2000), Crimson Gold (2003) and Offside (2006) were banned by the Islamic government of Iran. Although his films were often banned in his own country, he continued to receive international acclaim from film theorists and critics and has won numerous awards, including the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for The Mirror (1997), the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Circle (2000), and the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for Offside (2006). In July 2009 was Panahi arrested during the unrest after Iran’s election in 2009. He he was later released, but his passport was confiscated and he was banned from leaving the country. In February 2010 he was denied permission to leave Iran to participate in the panel discussion on ‘Iranian Cinema: Present and Future. Expectations inside and outside of Iran’ during the World Cinema Fund Day at the 60th Berlinale. - [Rakhshan Banietemad](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/rakhshan-banietemad/) - Born in 1954, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad is a graduate of filmmaking from Tehran’s Faculty of Dramatic Arts. She joined Iranian TV 1974 and started her career as a script-girl and assistant director. She directed a number of best documentaries in Iranian TV in early years after the Revolution like The Culture of Consumption (1979), Centralization (1982),… Her three first feature films, Off the Limits (1987), Canary Yellows (1988) and Foreign Currency (1989) were all comedies dealing with social issues, however, her fourth film, Nargess (1991) brought her an international recognition as well as numerous international awards. Her next feature films, The Blue-Veiled (1994), The May Lady (1997), Under Skin of the City (2000), Gilaneh (2005) and Mainline (2006) established her as the most important Iranian woman filmmaker in history of Iranian cinema as well as one of the most prestigious Iranian film directors at international scene. She continued making documentaries between her feature filmmaking career which put her as a very committed filmmakers toward Iranian society. She’s already made 10 feature films, contributed with making a an episode in 3 anthology films, and directed more than 12 documentaries too. She’s now working on her latest feature film, The Tales which will come out in 2013. - [Niki Karimi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/niki-karimi/) - Niki Karimi was born in Tehran on November 10, 1971. She started her career as an actress since 1989. In 1995 she was awarded the silver shell for best Actress in San Sebastian film festival and Nantes film festival award for Sara By Darioush Mehrjuii. She also won the best actress award for her performance in two women in Taormina film festival in Italy and in Cairo film festival in Egypt. Jury member in Thessaloniki film festival, In Dubai, Rennes, Middle East, Damascus and Locarno film festival, also a translator and a photographer. In 2001 she made a documentary about infertility. She premiered her first directing job with "To have or not to have", which won "The Rain" documentary award in Iran. One night, is her first feature film, Official selection in Cannes film festival (2005). - [Tahmineh Milani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/tahmineh-milani/) - Tahmineh Milani (born 1 September 1960) is a professional film director, screenwriter, and producer who came to the limelight by breaking all the traditional and conventional norms about women and their presence in Iran's society. Being sentenced to prison have not stopped her from expressing their feminist ideas freely and finally her style has become a canon against which other feminist works would be evaluated. Milani was born 1960 in Tabriz, Iran. - [Dariush Mehrjui](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/dariush-mehrjui/) - Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023) is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor. As an Iranian New Wave cinema icon, Mehrjui is regarded to be one of the intellectual directors of Iranian cinema. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adopted based on Iranian and foreign novels and plays. - [Amir Naderi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/amir-naderi/) - Born on 15 August, 1946 in Abadan, Amir Naderi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and one of the most influential figures of 20th-century Persian cinema. Naderi developed his knowledge of cinema by watching films at the theater where he worked as a boy, reading film criticism, and making relationships with leading film critics. He began his career with still photography for Iranian features. In the 1970s, Naderi turned to directing, and made some of the most important features of the New Iranian Cinema. In 1971, his directorial debut Goodbye Friend was released in Iran. Naderi first came into under the international spotlight with two classics of cinema: The Runner (1985) and Water, Wind, Dust (1989). After a numbers of his films were banned by the Iranian government, Mr. Naderi left the country. Expatriating to New York, Mr. Naderi continued to produce new work. He was named a Rockefeller Film and Video fellow in 1997, and has served as an artist in residence and instructor at Columbia University, the University of Las Vegas, and New York’s School of Visual Arts. His U.S. films have premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center/MOMA’s New Films New Director’s series, the Venice, Cannes, Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals. His last feature Sound Barrier (2005) won the prestigious Roberto Rossellini Prize at the Rome Film Festival. - [Majid Majidi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/majid-majidi/) - Tehran born Majidi grew up in a middle class Iranian family. By the time he was 14, he started acting in amateur theatre groups which led him to study at the Institute of Dramatic Art in Teheran. After the Islamic revolution in 1978, his interest in cinema brought him to act in various films, such as Boycott (1985). By 1992, Majidi made his debut as a director and screenwriter with the feature Baduk (1992), which was presented at the Quinzaine of Cannes and won several awards nationwide. Since then, he has written and directed several films that have won worldwide recognitions, most notably Children of Heaven (1997) that won the "Best Picture" at Montreal International Film Festival and nominated for best foreign film at the Oscar Academy Awards. The film was soon followed by another success, The Color of Paradise (1999) which also won the Best Picture award at Montreal International Film Festival, and Baran (2001) which won seven major awards at the Teheran International film Festival and the Best Picture award at the 25th Montreal International Film Festival. - [Bahman Ghobadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/bahman-ghobadi/) - Bahman Ghobadi was born on February 1st, 1969 in Baneh, a city near the Iran- Iraq border in the province of Kurdistan, Iran. He was the first son in a family of seven siblings. He lived in Baneh until, at the age of 12, civil disputes caused his entire family to immigrate to Sanandaj, the center of Kurdistan Province in Iran. After graduating from high school in Sanandaj, Ghobadi moved to Tehran in 1992. He started his artistic career in the field of Industrial Photography. Though he attended the Iranian Broadcasting College, he never graduated. Rather than following a formal curriculum, he believed the only way he could learn the craft of cinema was by tirelessly making short films. Using 8mm film, his starting point was to shoot a series of short documentaries. Through his instinctive and hands-on approach to filmmaking, Ghobadi developed a unique style, soon gaining widespread local recognition. A breakthrough came with "Life in a Fog" (1999), one of the most acclaimed shorts ever made in Iran. Following this success, Bahman Ghobadi went on to make A Time for Drunken Horses" (2000)- the first feature-length Kurdish film in the history of Iran. In the wake of being awarded several different International Awards, Ghobadi attracted international attention and established himself as a pioneer of Kurdish cinema. This film and all subsequent made by Ghobadi (among others, “Half Moon”, 2004, and “Turtles Can Fly”, 2006) were widely praised at film festivals the world over, gathering dozens of awards, but were little or not seen in his native country. In 2009, Ghobadi completed "No One Knows About Persian Cats"- a semi- documentary about the underground indie music scene in Tehran, filmed in Iran without an official permit and in very restricted conditions. He has since had to leave Iran and continue working abroad. His latest film to date, “Rhino Season” (2012), was shot in Istanbul. - [Hiner Saleem](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/hiner-saleem/) - Hiner Saleem (also transliterated as Hiner Salim) is an Iraqi–Kurdish film director. His memoir, My Father's Rifle, has been translated into several languages. Hiner Saleem was born in the town of Aqrah in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way to Italy, where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved to France where he lives now. In 1992, after the First Gulf War, he filmed undercover the living conditions of Iraqi Kurds. This footage was shown at the Venice Film Festival. In 1997, he made his first movie Vive la marie ... et la liberation du Kurdistan. This was followed by the films Passeurs de rêves (Beyond Our Dreams; 2000) Vodka Lemon (2003), Kilomètre Zéro (2005), Dol (2007), and Les Toits de Paris (Beneath the Rooftops of Paris; 2007). - [Navid Mahmoudi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/navid-mahmoudi/) - Navid Mahmoudi was born in Parvan, Afghanistan on September 23, 1980. He and his family moved to Iran when he was 6 years old. From a very early age he has been interested in films and cinema, developing a veritable passion for the 7th art. Having started his professional career as an assistant director he went on to direct his own short films whilst also producing other works. He has produced of over 10 TV Movies. In 2014 he produced his first feature, "A few Cubic Meters of Love", which was warmly received by both international critics and the public. In 2016 he directed his first feature "Parting", before going on to produce "Rona, Azim's Mother" in 2018. All three films were selected as Afghanistan's official Oscar entries. - [Narges Abyar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/narges-abyar/) - Narges Abyar graduated in Persian literature; She started writing books in 1997. Up to the present, she has written more than thirty story and fiction books for children, young adults and adults. She was selected as an Oscar Academy member in 2020. Her famous novels are namely: . Mountain on the Shoulder of the Tree . A Boy with insatiable worms on his body . Third Eye . The Legend of A Skinny Spring . It Was Neither a Day Nor a Night . The Poems of a Sky-clad Fish . Story of Two Fives . The Agitated Existence of a Prosperous Idol She has written and directed five drama films. Her recent film is called, Pinto. She had also made several short and feature-length documentaries since 2005. Her first experience was a fiction film called "The Kind Dead-End". She pursued her directing career further with seven features and documentaries and four cinema films, as listed below: . The Kind Dead-End (fiction 2006) . The story of a believable story (fiction 2007) . One day after the tenth day (documentary 2007) - [Vahid Sedaghat](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/vahid-sedaghat/) - Vahid Sedaghat was born in Tehran in 1983. He is an Iranian producer and writer. After studying film editing at the University of Applied Sciences, he produced View and Some Frame to Death. His most well-known film is “Persian Pasta”, about Iranian students in Italy. - [Anahita Ghazvinizadeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/anahita-ghazvinizadeh/) - Anahita Ghazvinizadeh (b1989, Tehran, Iran) is a filmmaker and writer. She got her BFA in cinema from Tehran University of Art and her MFA in studio arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Anahita has studied with Abbas Kiarostami and is influenced by his cinematic style. Being inspired by the rich culture of children’s cinema in Iran, she started to work on a trilogy of short films with children as the main characters. When the Kid was a Kid (2011) and Needle (2013) are the first two finished pieces of series. Anahita is also the co-writer of the acclaimed feature film, Mourning (2011). Childhood and parenthood, family theater, and exploring notions of growth and gender identity are the main themes of her work. - [Bahman Ark](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/bahman-ark/) - Bahman Ark is a director and scriptwriter who was born in 1989 in Tabriz, Iran. Ark Brothers most notable work is directing "Animal" movie. In the 36th Fajr Film Festival, they won the Crystal Simorgh Award for Best Short Film. They have also directed the short film "Najis". - [Farnoosh Samadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/farnoosh-samadi/) - Farnoosh Samadi was born in Iran and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. She started her career as a filmmaker at the Iranian Youth Cinema Society and after that she made some video installations. She is the scriptwriter for the short films “More Than Two Hours” directed by Ali Asgari which was nominated for a Palme d’Or at Cannes 2013, “The Baby” which was premiered in Short film competition at Venice Film Festival 2014 and some other short films. She is currently co-writing a feature film with Ali Asgari which is accepted at “Cinefondation Residence” of Cannes Film Festival. “The Silence” is her first short film, which had its world premiere in competition at Cannes Film Festival 2016. - [Ali Vaziri](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-vaziri/) - Ali Vaziri is an independent director and editor and has been involved in numerous high end projects in Iran. He has been actively involved in film industry for over a decade now. Ali graduated from 'Farhang va Honar' university in 2012, majoring in directing and film making. After moving to Australia in 2013 he started collaborating with Persian Film Festival in Sydney every year. In 2016 he established his own company, Easy to Media, specialising in movie editing and directing as well as professional videography and photography. - [Mahyar Mandegar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mahyar-mandegar/) - Mahyar Mandegar was born 1996 in Tehran, Iran. He started his career by entering faculty of cinema & theater at art university of Tehran. After two years he chose editing field and participated as editor in short films such as: Barcelona (2017), Nausea (2018), Stairways (2018), Metamorphosis (2018), etc. He directed the announce of 14th Nahal Short Film Festival. He was also the director of 2nd and 3rd Jokal Painting Festival’s announces. His first short film “Blue sky, Clean earth” (2017) won best film under 15 minute and best cinematography from Image of the Year film festival (Iran). It also won best original score from Nahal Short Film Festival (Iran). - [Kiana Naghshineh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/kiana-naghshineh/) - Kiana studied Animation at the Filmakademie Baden - Württemberg. There, she realised some Award Winning Shortfilms. After 6 years of studying in Ludwigsburg, Germany, her parents still don't know for sure what she's doing for a living, but they are proud of her anyways. With AUGENBLICKE she graduated from the Filmakademie. - [Bahram Ark](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/bahram-ark/) - Bahram Ark is a director and scriptwriter who was born in 1989 in Tabriz, Iran. Ark Brothers most notable work is directing "Animal" movie."Skin" movie is the first feature film by the Ark brothers and the first film to be made in the Turkish language. In the 36th Fajr Film Festival, they won the Crystal Simorgh Award for Best Short Film. They have also directed the short film "Najis". - [Mohammad Rasoulof](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohammad-rasoulof/) - Born in Shiraz in 1972, he started his artistic activity at age nine by acting in the theatre in Shiraz. He then pursued writing and directing for the theatre. He has studied social sciences. Focusing on social issues and the mutual impact on the individual and society, by living under a dictatorial and impervious government, has been the subject of most of his films. The documentary The Twilght (Gagooman, 2002) was his first feature length film and won the Crystal Simorgh (phoenix) at the 21st Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, as well as Best Documentary award at the 6th Iran Cinema House ceremony. Following the events a er the 2009 Presidential election in Iran, Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi were arrested while on location making a film. At the ensuing trial Rasoulof was sentenced to six years imprisonment (5 years on charges of gathering and collusion against national security and 1 year on charges of involvement in propaganda against the regime). In the appeals court, he was acquitted of the first charge and his sentence was reduced to one year. In 2011, due to selection of his film Goodbye (Be Omid e Didar, 2011) at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, his exit ban from Iran was lifted. In 2013, after making the film Manuscripts Don't Burn (Dast-Neveshteha Nemisoozand, 2013)and its screening at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, his passport and personal belongings were confiscated at Tehran Airport. Currently he is out on bail. In 2013, at the 40th Telluride Film Festival, the Silver Medal of the festival was awarded to Mohammad Rasoulof, Coen Brothers and Robert Redford. - [Mahmoud Ghafari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mahmoud-ghafari/) - Born in 1976 in Tehran, Mahmoud Ghaffari entered the landscape of Iranian cinema with a dozen award-winning shorts, some of which received prizes from his home country. Very active on the Iranian television scene, in 2006 he produced two series, THE GREY GAME and THE ADMIRERS OF LOVE. He collaborated with filmmakers Bahman Ghobadi and Asghar Fahradi, among others, before directing his first feature film, IT'S A DREAM. - [Pooya Badkoobeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/pooya-badkoobeh/) - Pooya Badkoobeh was born into a theatrical Tehran family on January 5th 1983. His father was a well-known children’s TV director and producer, so Pooya spent much of his childhood on set. He graduated in graphics from the Tehran School of Art in 2000 and then graduated in theatrical studiesfrom the Azad University of Dramatic Art in 2005. Since 2003 he’s been working in TV advertising,making both commercial and cultural spots. Parallel to this, Pooya has also made 2 short films, both of which have won national and international awards. Dressage is his first feature film. - [Ahmad Moazzemi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ahmad-moazzemi/) - Graduated of Cinema from IRIB College, Ahmad Moazzami started his career from 1994 as assistant director. He started directing TV series and movies in 2004. He also experienced scriptwriting, editing, costume and set designing during his career. Privacy is his debut feature film. - [Tahmineh Monzavi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/tahmineh-monzavi/) - Tahmineh Monzavi (born 1988 in Tehran) belongs to the young generation of promising Iranian woman photographers with a body of work that embodies a mature vision along with a unique and comprehensive outlook on the subjects. She received her BA in photography from Azad University but had begun her activities as a documentary photographer prior to that in 2005 when her passionate eye was enthralled by the existing but not quite publicly acknowledged social issues in her hometown, Tehran. Her documentary photographs venture into the underground layers of the city in order to unveil the unseen and the unwanted, hoping to create a deeper awareness of what is shunned upon or seen as taboo through the public eye. In 2009 she made her first documentary film to allow the more expressive medium of film open up new horizons to her creative and critical thinking yet clear traces of her photographic background could be seen in her approach to this new medium. - [Farhad Delaram](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/farhad-delaram/) - Independent filmmaker Farhad Delaram was born in Tehran, Iran in 1988. His lifelong love towards cinema led him to study cinema at University of Tehran where he focused his studies on the subject of sound in poetic cinema and received his MA with honor. He also has published a paper about aesthetics of sound in cinema in Avanca congress 2016. He started his career when he was 18 as a screenwriter in Iran's National Radio and Television and also in private filmmaking studios, besides working as an independent screenwriter. Farhad has made six independent short films (as director, writer, photographer, editor and sound editor) including two very low budget documentaries and four fiction films. His last film (Tattoo/2019) won several awards including Crystal Bear for Best Short Film at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in Generation 14plus section. - [Atefeh Mehrabi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/atefeh-mehrabi/) - Atefeh Mehrabi ( born in February 28, 1990 in Tehran, Iran ) is an Iranian film director, film producer, teacher of Display kids artwork and journalist on film. He graduated from Sooreh University with a master's degree of Film in Directing. her films have been praised at national and international festivals. - [Arman Fayyaz](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/arman-fayyaz/) - Born in Iahijan (Iran) in 1982. Masters degree of cinema ,director of photography of more than 100 films (fiction, and documentaries and short films). Director of five short films: Manicure (2017), White blossom (2010), Tea (2009), The song I heard with you (2007) and When (2005). - [Kianoush Ayari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/kianoush-ayari/) - Kianoush Ayari is a director and screenwriter who was born in 1951 in Ahvaz, Iran. He began his career as film critic, editor and screenwriter. In 1970 he joined the Ahvaz Free Cinema Group and has won Silver Leopard from Locarno International Film Festival in 1994 and two Crystal Simorgh for Best director from Fajr Film Festival. - [Ali Shilandari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-shilandari/) - Ali Shilandari is an award-winning Iranian director based in Iran. Prior to making his first feature length documentary, Fading Portraits, he worked as a cinematographer in several films including Cypher and Lion, Jenayat-e Movajah and a few short films. He took up photography in his early 20s and is one of the founding members of Isfahan’s Society of Photographers - [Mohsen Banihashemi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohsen-banihashemi/) - Mohsen Banihashemi was born in 1992 in Abhar, Iran. He is a theatre directing graduate. He has written several plays at University. Experimentalism in his works made him being admired in Festivals. "Staircase" (2018), his first short film, world premiered at Oscar qualifying 75th Venice Film Festival - Orizzonti. - [Arman Khansarian](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/arman-khansarian/) - Arman Khansarian is a director, screenwriter and cinema writer. The short film "Shadow of the Elephant" directed by Khansarian entered the Regard International Film Festival in Canada and competed in receiving four awards from this festival. His other film, "Sabz Kaleh Ghazi", was nominated for the Crystal Simorgh award for the best short fiction film from the 35th Fajr Film Festival. He also co-wrote the film Abar Baranesh Geghre with Majid Barzegar . - [Kimia Hendi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/kimia-hendi/) - An independent filmmaker originally from Iran, Kimia Hendi studied a Bachelor of Cinema, specialized in Cinematography, at Tehran’s University of Art. Having then completed her Masters of Film & TV at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), winning Outstanding Achievement Award 2018. Since 2015, she has made four short films and a documentary "Adam and Eves". She most recently won MIFF Emerging Australian Director 2019. - [Fatemeh Ahmadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/fatemeh-ahmadi/) - Fateme Ahmadi is an Iranian-British writer and director who graduated from the London Film School. Her shorts received recognition at festivals worldwide, including BIFA-nominated BITTER SEA and LEILA’S BLUES, made through Tunisia Factory and screened in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Fateme is an alumna of Berlinale Talents and Edinburgh Talent Lab, a Film London Lodestar as well as a recipient of the John Brabourne Award. She was selected by Riz Ahmed’s Left Handed Films and Pillars Fund as one of their 2022 Pillars Artist Fellows. Fateme is currently in development with the BFI Film Fund on her first feature, Daughter of Eden, which was selected for Torino Film Lab Next and EIFF Talent Lab Connects. She is mentored by Marjane Satrapi (BAFTA-nominated writer/director, Persepolis, Radioactive). In addition to her narrative work, Fateme also worked as the associate producer of Coup 53, directed by Taghi Amirani and edited by Walter Murch. - [Ali Farahani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ali-farahani/) - Ali Farahani was born in 1984 in Tehran. He has a BA in cinema from Sooreh Art University of Tehran. His major was script writing and during his study, roughly between 2007 and 2012, he was a film critic in Iranian press. In this period, he wrote more than 50 critical essays and reviews which were publish in FilmNegar magazine. He has been also directing commercials for a short period and has been teaching digital cinematography in Tehran Institute of Technology. He made his first short fiction-experimental film, TANAVOB (PERIODICITY) after his BA study. TANAVOB won the best short film in 33th Tehran short festival (National Section) and the Sepanta Award for the Best short film and the Best directing of a short film at the 10th Iranian film festival San Francisco (IFF) in 2017. - [Reza Tofighjoo](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/reza-tofighjoo/) - Reza Tofighjoo started his career as a film critic for various film magazine and papers. He worked as an assistant director to well-known Iranian directors including Nasser Taghvaie and work both in Theatre and Cinema as director. He has made documentaries and music videos and have written and directed several short films such as Waran The Beast of Lust and Whooping Cough. - [Saleh Kashefi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/saleh-kashefi/) - Saleh Kashefi (born in Tehran August 1st, 1999) is an Iranian Director, Actor, Screenwriter, Editor and Graphic Designer. He has made four main short films which have been in more than 75 film festivals around the world and have won 19 awards. He began his career as a child actor when he was 9 years old before starting to make films when he was 12 years old. He won an award for best short film in under 15 category in 2013 when he was 13 for a music video he made called “I love life“ in City‘s Moths Film Festival in Iran. He made his first serious fiction short film, “The Three Letter Word“ when he was 17 which was selected in 8 International film festivals and his second short film “Arian Said: I Wanna Play Too“ was selected in 5 International film festivals. His most successful short film is his third made in 2018 and the third short film in the same year called “A Pair of Horns on a Female Homo Sapiens“ which was selected in more than 48 International film festivals and won 11 awards. His fourth short film called “ She Who Wasn't Tamed“ has just started its festival run and has been in 19 film festivals and won two awards until now. Since 2009, he has acted in more than ten plays and television films but he has stopped acting since 2016 and focused on directing. He‘s a graduated scholar student at Iranian Youth Cinema Society and a member of FIFF‘s Talent Campus 2019. He is the only artist invited for the Basel House of Film‘s Artist Residency Program and is spending three months in Switzerland to work on his first feature film. He has recently started a Film Distribution Company called Synesthesia Films (synesthesiafilms.com) for student short films around the world and they have a selection of films from China, Germany, Turkey and Iran right now. - [Ata Mehrad](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/ata-mehrad/) - Born in 1989 in Tabriz, Ata was always fond of Arts. He started playing guitar when he was 15 thinking he could be a musician. Later in 2004 he tried graphic designing by designing posters, editing images and studying digital art. In 2006 by entering university, his professional life as an artist commenced. He wrote screenplays, acted and directed several plays. It was in 2014 when he focused on cinema by attending courses on documentary filmmaking, production, script writing and a lot more. Since then Ata has been working as an independent filmmaker. - [Siavash Jamali](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/siavash-jamali/) - Siavash Jamali was born in 1984 in Tehran. First, he started acting in theater in 2003 and after that he directed some plays. He started his career as a filmmaker and directed his first movie “Once upon a time there was a man” in 2014. Now he is working as both producer and director and he was executive producer of “Sunless Shadows” (directed by Mehrdad Oskouei). - [Mohsen Tanabandeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mohsen-tanabandeh/) - Born in 1975 in Tehran, Mohsen Tanabandeh is an actor, screenwriter and director. He is a graduate of Acting from Art and Architecture University and started his career in 1992 in theatre. The Oath is his second feature film. - [Arash Eshaghi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/arash-eshaghi/) - Arash Eshaghi was born in 1976 in Iran. He graduated from Allame Tabatabei University majoring in literature. Arash has two decades experience in film directing, researching, writing, editing and sound. - [Soudabeh Beizaee](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/soudabeh-beizaee/) - Soudabeh Beizaee is a Persian literature graduate from Ahvaz University. She started her career by playing in feature films. Then she began writing screenplays and eventually became interested in documentary filmmaking. - [Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/elea-gobbe-mevellec/) - Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec was born in France in 1985. She studied animation at the Gobelins School in Paris for three years, where she completed two short films: Madame (2005), a musical short about children, and Traintamarre (2006), that was screened at the International Animation Film Festival of Annecy. She was a character animator on the feature film Le Chat du Rabbin (2009) and Le Jour des Corneilles (2010). - [Zabou Breitman](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/zabou-breitman/) - Zabou Breitman, or simply Zabou, is a French actress and director. She is the daughter of actors Jean-Claude Deret and Céline Léger. At the age of four, she appeared in her first movie. Since 1981, Zabou has acted in dozens of roles in films, TV movies, and theaters. She made her directoral debut in 2001 with Se souvenir des belles choses, for which she won a César Award for Best Debut. - [Safi Yazdanian](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/safi-yazdanian/) - Born in 1960 in Tehran, Safi Yazdanian studied Cinema at the University of Arts and started his career as a critic and essayist in magazines. His earliest films were documentaries and short films namely Breath (2000), Looking for Shahrzad (2002), My Boats (2005) and Entracte (2010). His first feature directorial debut was What's The Time In Your World? (2014) and his latest feature film is Suddenly a Tree (2019). - [Shalizeh Arefpour](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/shalizeh-arefpour/) - Shalizeh Arefpour was born in Tehran in 1970 and studied at the Filmmaking Training Center. Since 1990 she has participated on 26 movies as a programmer, assistant director, scriptwriter and editor. Her 2014 debut short 'The Shadow of Moon' was followed by three documentaries. 'Heiran' is her directorial debut feature. - [Amir Parsamehr](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/amir-parsamehr/) - Amir Parsamehr is known for Raha (2011) and The IVth Man (2012). - [Peyman Naimi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/peyman-naimi/) - Peiman Naimi (1975, Iran) was educated at the Iranian selective school National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents. After graduating there, he studied Medicine for six years and then studied film at the Art University of Tehran. Naimi has directed one short documentary and two short fictional films so far. - [Siddiq Barmak](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/siddiq-barmak/) - Siddiq Barmak (Born September 7, 1962) in Panjshir, Afghanistan, is a film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) in 1987. He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films. His first feature film OSAMA, won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004. There is a stylistic echo in OSAMA featured in Afghan films by the Iranian Makhmalbaf dynasty; father Mohsen's Kandahar, and daughter Samira Makhmalbaf's At Five in the Afternoon, the latter also shot in post-Taliban Kabul. Barmak directed OSAMA with significant funding and assistance from the elder Makhmalbaf. The Iranian director invested thousands of dollars in the film, lending Barmak his Arriflex camera and encouraging him to send the movie to international festivals, which eventually generated further funding from Japanese and Irish producers. Barmak received "UNESCO’s Fellini Silver Medal" for his drama, OSAMA, in 2003. - [Tina Gharavi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/tina-gharavi/) - Born in Tehran, Tina Gharavi is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning filmmaker initially trained as a painter in the United States later studying cinema in France. Her debut feature, I Am Nasrine, a coming of age story of two teenage Iranian refugees, was nominated for a BAFTA in 2013. The film received 4 stars from Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian calling it, “A valuable debut, shot with a fluent kind of poetry” while Deborah Ross in the Spectator described it as “affectionate, humane, tender and, ultimately, optimistic.” Gharavi has made films from unique perspectives on subjects as diverse as Muhammad Ali, teenage sexuality, Yemeni-British sailors, The Lackawanna 6, death row exonerees, refugees and lighthouses. Her first short, Closer, a 35mm film was an official selection at Sundance where programmer, Shari Frilot, noted that ‘it takes documentary to the next level.’ Gharavi’s next major production chronicled her return to her mother’s house in Iran, 23 years after the Islamic Revolution. The resulting film, Mother/Country, was broadcast at prime time on Channel 4 in the UK where the national press gave it top billing. Further works such as The King of South Shields, deal with “the outsider” and her work often explores the issues of strategies of power and “who speaks for whom.” Since leaving Iran in 1979 she has been a true nomad; carrying no less than 4 passports she currently resides in Northern England and Los Angeles where she is working on her follow-up feature, The Good Iranian, with the BFI and Film 4; a gangster tale set in France and Iran, a further feature documentary about tribalism and othering, Tribalism is Killing Us, as well as other commissions. She recently worked as Second Unit Director on the high-end drama, The Tunnel, the UK version of The Bridge and is now in production on African Queens series for Nutopia (2022) and developing two original projects which she is writing. - [Nasser Zamiri](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/nasser-zamiri/) - Born in 1977 in Mashad, Nasser Zamiri is considered as one of the most successful short filmmakers in Iran, as they have brougth him national and international recognition in the past 15 years. His short films are: WHITE HUMAN (1998), LULLABY FOR WAKEFULNESS (2001), SINGULAR THIRD PERSON (2003-4), A COZY PLACE FOR THE FISH (2006), SKY WITHOUT PASSPORT (2008), BITTER MILK (2011). WITH OTHERS is Mr. Zamiri's debut feature film. - [Vahid Hajilouei](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/vahid-hajilouei/) - Vahid Hajilouei is known for Inhale (2020), Do.Solo.Pin (2021) and Sunless Shadows (2019). - [Abbas Nezamdoost](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/abbas-nezamdoost/) - Abbas Nezamdoost is known for Gorg Bazi (2018) and Ta Baraneh Baadi (2012). - [Babak Amini](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/babak-amini/) - Babak Amini was born in 1978 in Iranian Kurdistan. He graduated in the major of philosophy from Tehran University. I have been the 17th Cinéfondation session resident in the Cannes film festival from Oct 2008 till Feb 2009 and was working on my first feature movie by the name: “30 Days with Me” And also, working for several years as the director assistant of Bahman Ghobadi Like: “A time for drunken horses”, “Turtles Can Fly”, “No one knows about the Persian cats. - [Amir Azizi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/amir-azizi/) - Amir Azizi is a director and actor, known for Movaghat (2016), Impermanent (2015) and I Hate the Dawn (2014). - [Salem Salavati](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/salem-salavati/) - Born in Kurdistan Iran in 1975. Salavati has directed several short films, documentaries and feature films. He has received more than fifty national and international awards for his work as both director, scriptwriter and photographer. - [Kazem Mollaie](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/kazem-mollaie/) - Kazem Mollaie started filmmaking with a short film named "FROM GAME TO..." (1999). Mollaie holds a B.A. in Cinema Directing from "Soore University of Tehran" in 2005. He has been the member of several organizations such as "Iranian Young Cinema Society" (IYCS), the "Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds" (Khaneh Cinema) and member of Board of Directors of "Iranian Short Film Association" (ISFA). - [Shahram Mokri](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/shahram-mokri/) - Born in Marand, Iran in 1977, He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing. He has also worked as an editor on television films, series, short films and documentaries. His film, Fish & Cat was shown at the 70th Venice International Film Festival and won the special orizzonti award for innovative content. He was nominated for the 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing for Fish & Cat. For his short film The Dragonfly Storm, Mokri won Best Director at the 2007 Noor Iranian Film Festival. - [Mona Zandi Haghighi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mona-zandi-haghighi/) - Mona Zandi Haghighi was born on October 20, 1972 in Tehran, Iran. She is a Writer, Director, Producer and Editor of short films, documentaries and feature films. Her art works belong to the cinema of post-revolutionary Iran, which focuses on contemporary social issues within Persian culture. - [Majid-Reza Mostafavi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/majid-reza-mostafavi/) - Majid-Reza Mostafavi was born in Iran in 1984. He started his film career by editing and making short films. His first feature film Unripe Pomegranates (2014) was screened in the main competition sections of more than 10 international film festivals including Moscow 2014, Sao Paulo 2014, Fukuoka 2015 and Zürich 2015. Astigmatism is his second feature film. Mostafavi has always tried to deal with the forgotten class and the important but less seen events with a human theme in his films. - [Yaser Talebi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/yaser-talebi/) - Yaser Talebi was born in Sari, North of Iran, in 1982. A film director, producer, screenwriter and Editor. He has been famous as a creative director and aesthetic expert. He travels around his home town meeting its people and exploring the environment, history and culture of the different regions. - [Kourosh Ataee](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/kourosh-ataee/) - Kourosh Ataee was born in 1990. He started his career by attending the training courses of filmmaking at the Iran Young Cinema Society in 2007. He received a BA in directing and an MA in drama literature from the Cinema & Theatre Faculty of the Tehran University of Arts. He has worked as an assistant director and script advisor on short and feature films and TV series, and has directed two short fiction films. His mid-length documentary From Iran, A Separation has been shown at different festivals around the world and received awards. Finding Farideh is his first feature documentary film. - [Suzan Iravanian](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/suzan-iravanian/) - Born in 1985 in Shiraz, Iran, Suzan Iravanian holds a BA in Art and Architecture and MA in Cult Film from Brunel University as well as an MA in Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy. Since 2009, Iravanian has been involved in the production of short films and in 2015, she started working on her first feature film, Leakage, premiering at the 2019 Berlinale. She is also a writer, photographer and graphic designer. - [Hossein Mahkam](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/hossein-mahkam/) - Born in Tehran, in 1980, Hossein Mahkam is a graduate of Philosophy from Tehran University. He is a veteran theater playwright and director who has directed several stage productions. He has written and published four books of short stories and is teaching scriptwriting in film schools. - [Arash Lahooti](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/arash-lahooti/) - Born in 1982 in Tehran, Arash Lahooti is a graduate of Film Editing from Yazd Applied Science College and then, he was involved in making documentaries. As one of the most successful Iranian documentary filmmakers, Arash Lahooti has made 5 documentaries which have been shown in more than 100 film festivals around the world and have collected 25 national and international awards like Golden Hugu of Best Documentary at Chicago Film Festival in 2013. Orange Days is Lahooti’s debut feature film. - [Shahrbanoo Sadat](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/shahrbanoo-sadat/) - Shahrbanoo is an Afghan, female writer and director, based in Kabul. She studied at Atelier Varan Kabul. Her first feature film Wolf and Sheep was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence in 2010. Shahr - 20 years old at the time- was the youngest ever selected. The film won the main award at Director’s Fortnight 2016. Her second feature film is also after Wolf and Sheep the second part of a planned pentalogy, five films based on an unpublished autobiography. It will be presented at Director's Fortnight in 2019. - [Alireza Motamedi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/alireza-motamedi/) - Born in 1978 in Isfahan, Alireza Motamedi is a graduate of Persian Literature and has been involved as a writer, poet, film critic and scriptwriter in 20 years. He has written scripts for more than 20 feature films and TV series and Reza is his debut feature film. - [Mahboba Rawi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mahboba-rawi/) - Mahboba Rawi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. At just 15 years of age, Mahboba was forced to flee from Soviet authorities and lived for two years in a Pakistan refugee camp until she married and moved to Australia. Despite suffering a personal tragedy in 1992 when she lost her son in a drowning accident, Mahboba worked tirelessly to help Afghan refugees in Australia, by teaching them swimming and English. In 1998, after a plea for help from a Doctor in Peshawar, Pakistan, Mahboba began to raising money and awareness for Afghan widows and orphans living in refugee camps. Her passion for the well-being of the Afghan people led to the formation of Mahboba’s Promise Inc in 2001. Mahboba’s Promise is known around the world as a reputable charity dedicated to directly improving the lives of vulnerable women and children of Afghanistan. Since Mahboba’s Promise was established, Mahboba’s determination has led to the establishment of Hope Houses, Primary and Secondary schools for both boys and girls, primary health care services in rural areas, and vocational programs for women and young people, providing them with the tools required to live a self-sufficient life. Not only has Mahboba’s Promise made a huge impact in Afghanistan, it has concurrently built bridges between Australian and Afghan communities. - [Shohini Chaudhuri](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/shohini-chaudhuri/) - Shohini Chaudhuri's main research and teaching area is World Cinema, with particular interests in film and human rights, film-philosophy, feminist and postcolonial theory. Her work develops transnational and comparative frameworks to explore links between different film cultures. She has written four books - Crisis Cinema in the Middle East: Creativity and Constraint in Iran and the Arab World (2022), Cinema of the Dark Side: Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship (2014), Contemporary World Cinema: Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia (2005) and Feminist Film Theorists (2006). Her article (co-authored with Howard Finn) on New Iranian Cinema has been published in Screen and reprinted in two anthologies, Screening World Cinema, ed. Catherine Grant and Annette Kuhn (2006) and Gender, Genre, Race, and World Cinema, ed. Julie Codell (2007). She has also published articles in the journals Camera Obscura, Strategies: A Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics, South Asian Popular Culture, and Screening the Past, as well as essays in numerous edited collections, such as Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture, ed. Michael Lawrence and Rachel Tavernor (2018), The Blackwell Companion to Wong Kar-wai, ed. Martha Nochimson (2016) and Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World, ed. Christina Hellmich and Lisa Purse (2017). Her most recent book is the result of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project titled Creativity and Constraint: Contemporary Cinema in Iran and the Arab World. A film activist as well as educator, Shohini has researched and curated film programmes for The Mosaic Rooms, London, and the Art Exchange, University of Essex, and has organized public film events for the NGO Amnesty International and other cultural institutions. Additional information: She would particularly welcome applications for Ph.D. theses on the intersecting areas of film, human rights, and critical and cultural theory - [Mahsa Salamati](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/mahsa-salamati/) - Dr Mahsa Salamati completed her PhD in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales. Her research is concerned with the dynamics and politics of transnational film circulation in the Iranian context. Her work focuses on cultural policies, the international film festival circuit and piracy. - [Rosa Holman](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/rosa-holman/) - Rosa Holman is currently completing her second year of her Master of Arts research thesis at the University of Melbourne. Her research is focused on the topic of “Iranian Neo-Realist Cinema and Political Allegorization”. - [Gay Breyley](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/gay-breyley/) - Gay researches popular music history in Australian, Iranian and diasporic contexts. She is also founding convener of the Central and West Asia and Diasporas Research Network. - [Negar Mottahedeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/negar-mottahedeh/) - Negar Mottahedeh is Associate Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at Duke University currently teaching as Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. Her work has been published in Camera Obscura, Signs, Iranian Studies, Radical History Review, MERIP, The Drama Review, Early Popular Visual Culture, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. In 2008, Duke University Press published her book on Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema entitled Displaced Allegories. Her first book, Representing the Unpresentable, on visual history and reform in Iran from the 19th century to the present was published in 2008 by Syracuse University Press. A perceptive theorist of Iranian visual culture, Professor Mottahedeh writes and speaks about culture, innovation and digital technologies. Her current research and writing on the uses of social media in uprisings for civil liberties and equality around the world, supplement her engagement as blogger and activist. She tweets as negaratduke. - [Sanaz Fotouhi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/sanaz-fotouhi/) - Sanaz Fotouhi is a writer, filmmaker, arts manager, thinker and a mom. She was born in Iran soon after the revolution and at the onset of the war. Thanks to her father’s job (though she wasn’t really thankful for it when she was a teenager) she grew up across Asia, and America before moving to Australia. While living in Hong Kong, Sanaz studied a BA and an MPhil in English Literature from the University of Hong Kong. She particularly had a passion for creative writing and literary theory and criticism, especially modernism, post-colonial and post-modern literatures and theories. She was a passionate nerd who spent every break in the library, and handing in assignments weeks in advance, to the annoyance of her classmates! Her MPhil project (to which one day she will return in the future…) is a comparative study of the short stories of Nadine Gordimer and Katherine Mansfield. It was this passion that led her to her PhD study of Iranian writing in English from a post-colonial perspective where she examined every text of fiction and memoir that she could get her hands on by Iranian writers in English since 1979 to 2014. This study eventuated as a book, The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and Identity Since the Islamic Revolution which has become a seminal text that examines the body of Iranian writing in English between that time. - [Karen Pearlman](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/karen-pearlman/) - Dr Karen Pearlman writes, directs and edits screen productions. She researches creative practice, cognition and feminist film histories. Karen Pearlman is a director, with Richard James Allen, of the critically acclaimed Physical TV Company. Their works have broadcast in Australia and around the world, screened at over 300 international film festivals, and received over 80 nominations or awards. Karen's 2019 film, I want to make a film about women won Best Documentary at the 2020 St Kilda Film Festival, qualifying it for an Academy Award nomination. She was awarded Best Director at the 2020 inaugural CinefestOz Short Film Awards and Best Direction of a Documentary Short Subject at the 2020 Australian Directors’ Guild (ADG) Awards. I want to make a film about women also received the Creative Achievement Award at the 2020 Brisbane International Film Festival Short Film Awards and a Special Mention at the 2020 Sydney Film Festival’s Dendy Awards for its ‘ambitious and masterful mix of forms'. 2016 film, Woman with an Editing Bench, won the ATOM Award for Best Short Fiction. It and Karen’s 2018 documentary, After the Facts, were both honoured with Australian Screen Editors' Guild (ASE) Awards for Best Editing. Karen is a senior lecturer in Screen Production and Practice at Macquarie University, the 2020 Australian Top Research Institution in Film. She and her colleague Dr Iqbal Barkat won the 2019 Australian Award for University Teaching. Before joining Macquarie, Karen held the post of Head of Screen Studies at AFTRS for 6 years. A leading theorist, speaker and writer on the art of film editing, she is the author of Cutting Rhythms, Intuitive Film Editing (now in its 2nd edition with Focal Press) and well-known around the world for her YouTube series The Science of Editing created with This Guy Edits. - [Catharine Lumby](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/catharine-lumby/) - Professor Catharine Lumby is the author and co-author of six books and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is writing a literary biography of the author Frank Moorhouse for Allen and Unwin. Catharine writes a regular column for The Guardian. She also a longstanding social commentator on radio and television. Catharine delivers talks and workshops to schools for educators, parents and young people on social media, ethics and respectful relationships. Since 2004, Catharine has worked in a pro-bono role advising the National Rugby League on cultural change and education programs for players. Before entering academia in 2000, she was a journalist and opinion writer and has worked for The Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC and The Bulletin magazine. She was the foundation Chair of the Media and Communications Department at Sydney University and the foundation Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at UNSW. She joined Macquarie University in 2013. She has been the recipient of eight Australian Research Council grants and has completed research projects for organisations as diverse as Google Australia, the Australian Communication and Media Authority, the Australian Sports Commission and the National Rugby League. She sits on the Council of the National Museum of Australia. - [Hadi Nojoumian](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/hadi-nojoumian/) - Dr Hadi Nojoumian is cardiologist in practice and a senior lecturer at the department of medicine New England University. He has an interest in medical humanities and philosophy of medicine. He is one of the founding members of Honar Andishi which is a monthly literary and film study meeting in Sydney. - [Elham Naeej](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/elham-naeej/) - Dr Elham Naeej is a Research Fellow at Deakin University and UNSW. Her thesis project delves into the contemporary Iranian romance novels for topics like women's capital, women’s body, and women's identity. It is a genre and gender analysis and will include topics like gender violence, captivity and autonomy in the romance novels. - [Afshin Forghani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/afshin-forghani/) - Afshin Forghani is an independent art critic who has published in Iranian magazines, “Scenes of Cinema” and “Cine-Eye”. He also has made a number of award-winning short films and was the first assistant director on many Iranian TV series and films (including works by Asghar Farhadi and Behnam Behzadi). 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Several awards are presented, including the - [Past Festivals](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/editions/) - [Our Juries](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/our-juries/) - Past JuriesFestival Jury – 2025 Pat Fiske2020 Peter Andrikidis2020 Romaine Moreton2020 Rahel Romahn2020 Helena Sawires2020 Festival Jury – 2019Mitzi Goldman2019 Stefan Moore2019 Megan McMurchy2019 Tom Zubrycki2019 Susan Prior2019 Robert Mackenzie2019 Rachel Ward2019 Bonnie Elliott2019 Mojean Aria2019 Festival Jury – 2018Ester Harding2018 Fereydoun Mehrabi2018 Andrea Demetriades2018 David White2018 Festival Jury – 2017Rosemary Blight2017 Ben Ferris2017 Jen - [Gazelle Awards](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/gazelle-award/) - The Persian Film Festival Australia celebrate excellence in filmmaking across several prestigious categories. These include the festival’s esteemed Golden Gazelle Award for Best Feature and Best Short Film. Each award recognises outstanding contributions to storytelling and cinematic artistry among Persian-speaking filmmakers 2025 Best FeatureMy Favourite CakeMaryam Moghaddam Behtash Sanaeeha Special MentionCause of Death: UnknownAli Zarnegar - [Festival](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/) - Official SelectionIN COMPETITION–Opening Night–Tatamiby Zar Amir, Guy Nattiv2023Feature Film103'United States IN COMPETITION–Closing Night–The Witnessby Nader Saeivar2024Feature Film100'Germany, Austria IN COMPETITION–Reading Lolita in Tehranby Eran Riklis2024Feature Film108'Italy, Israel IN COMPETITION–My Favourite Cakeby Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha2024Feature Film96'Iran, France, Sweden, Germany IN COMPETITION–Endless Bordersby Abbas Amini2023Feature Film110'Iran, Czech Republic OFFICIAL SELECTION–Googoosh: Made of Fireby Niloufar Taghizadeh2024Feature Film94'Germany, - [11th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/editions/11th-edition/) - Special Events Opening Night CeremonyCeremony followed by screeningLearn more Closing Night CeremonyAward Ceremony followed by afterpartyLearn more Reading Lolita in TehranEnjoy screening with a glass of wineLearn more Official SelectionIN COMPETITION–Opening Night–Tatamiby Zar Amir, Guy Nattiv2023Feature Film103'United States IN COMPETITION–Closing Night–The Witnessby Nader Saeivar2024Feature Film100'Germany, Austria IN COMPETITION–Reading Lolita in Tehranby Eran Riklis2024Feature Film108'Italy, Israel - [Submissions](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/about/submissions/) - If you are a filmmaker from Iran, Afghanistan or Tajikistan, anywhere in the world, we invite you to submit your films to be part of the festival and to compete in the Best Feature, Best Documentary and Best Short Film categories. 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Karimi also conducted a practical filmmaking workshop at the - [3rd Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/editions/3rd-edition/) - Official Selection FilmmakersMohammad Rasoulof2016 Hossein Shahabi2016 Alireza Amini2016 Hassan Fathi2016 Mohsen Gharaie2016 Afshin Hashemi2016 Parviz Shahbazi2025 - [4th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/editions/4th-edition/) - Official Selection FundraiserLove Marriage in KabulThe festival hosted a special fundraiser screening of Amin Palangi’s award winning Love Marriage in Kabul and donated the proceeding to Mahboba’s Promise Charity. Festival GuestsMahboba Rawi2023 Pat Fiske2020 Alexandria Bombach2016 Saeed Sourati2016 Bita Beigi2016 Noora Niasari2016 Amin Palangi2016 Alireza Amini2016 FilmmakersMo Scarpelli2016 Alexandria Bombach2016 Tiyam Yabandeh2016 Arian Vazirdaftari2016 Baran - [5th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/editions/5th-edition/) - Official Selection WinnersBest FeatureThe SalesmanAsghar FarhadiBest Short500 Ounces of Gold Shahrzad Dadgar Festival Juries Festival GuestsMajid Barzegar: A RetrospectiveThe festival hosted several national and international guests. Davood Khayam presented the world premiere of his debut feature, Mohey. In partnership with AFTRS, we hosted a retrospective on Majid Barzegar presented for a retrospective of his films, - [6th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/editions/6th-edition/) - Official Selection WinnersBest FeatureParting Navid MahmoudiBest ShortSave Me Mohsen Nabavi Festival Juries Academic ProgramPersian Cinema Near and Far: Creativity and ControversyIn partnership with Art Gallery NSW and The Association of Iranica in Australasia, the festival hosted a full day of engagement, discussion and cutting-edge research on Iranian Cinema. This conference features cross-disciplinary discourse on the - [7th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/editions/7th-edition/) - Official Selection WinnersBest FeatureDressage Pooya BadkoobehBest ShortAnimal Bahman Ark / Bahram Ark Festival JuriesEster Harding2018 Fereydoun Mehrabi2018 Andrea Demetriades2018 David White2018 Academic ProgramSensuality and Desire in Iranian CinemaIn the aftermath of the Iranian revolution of 1979, the film industry was subjected to a process of purification. For almost four decades, explicit treatment of sex and - [8th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/editions/8th-edition/) - Official Selection WinnersBest FeatureSeven and a Half Navid MahmoudiBest DocumentaryShouting at the Wind Siavash Jamali / Ata MehradBest ShortTattoo Farhad Delaram Festival JuriesFilmmakersParviz Shahbazi2025 Mohsen Banihashemi2023 Arman Khansarian2023 Kimia Hendi2023 Fatemeh Ahmadi2023 Ali Farahani2023 Reza Tofighjoo2023 Atefeh Mehrabi2023 Saleh Kashefi2023 Arman Fayyaz2023 Farhad Delaram2023 Ata Mehrad2019 Siavash Jamali2019 Mohsen Tanabandeh2019 Kianoush Ayari2019 Arash Eshaghi2019 Soudabeh - [9th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/editions/9th-edition/) - Official Selection WinnersBest FeaturePari Director: Siamak EtemadiBest ShortExam Director: Sonia K Haddad Festival JuriesFilmmakersAbbas Amini2025 Sarah Tabibzadeh2023 Sahar Sotoodeh2023 Ali Paknia2023 Faezeh Alavi2023 Siavash Shahabi2023 Kaveh Tehrani2023 Sonia K Hadad2023 Nima Javidi2022 Mohammad Reza Aslani2020 Mehrdad Oskouei2020 Mahnaz Mohammadi2020 Siamak Etemadi2020 Homayoun Ghanizadeh2020 Kamran Heidari2020 Azadeh Mousavi2019 Omid Shams2018 Kaveh Mazaheri2018 Shahram Mokri2018 Kazem Mollaie2018 - [Film Archive](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/film-archive/) - [Schedule](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/festival/schedule/) - The festival schedule will be released in March 2026.Venues Palace Moore ParkShop 215, 122 Lang Rd Moore Park NSW 2021Learn more Palace ComoLevel 1, Toorak Rd & Chapel St, South Yarra VIC 3141Learn more The Playhouse309 Beardy St, Armidale NSW 2350Learn more AFTRS TheatreBuilding 130, The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park NSW 2021Learn more - [Official Partners](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/support/official-partners/) - Principal PartnersGold Partners“In conjunction with the Maghami Trust”Silver PartnersBronze PartnersEvent PartnersMedia Partners - [Festival Patrons](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/support/festival-patrons/festival-patrons/) - Festival ChampionHadi & Negar Nojoumian Festival AssociateDr Farid Meybodi Shahnaz Pourasadi Festival SupporterDr Mammad HosseinipourVida ShahamatShokufeh KavaniAli TaghvaiAzita DamandanDr Afshin ForghaniMalahat BagherianKhashaiar ShekarchiNaser & Ella Dastyari - [Donate Today](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/support/donate/) - Since its inception, PFFA has been dedicated to bringing the best of Persian cinema to Australian audiences through a world-class program of premieres and special events. 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When the maid disappears, Ava's relationship with her husband reaches a crisis. Directed by: Mania Akbari Production Year: 2012 Country: Iran, United Kingdom Length: 45 minutes Watch The TrailerCreditsDirector: Mania Akbari Writer: Mania - [Under The Colours](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/under-the-colours/) - Esmaeel Monsef - [Opponent](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/opponent/) - Milad Alami - [Lima](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/lima/) - Jafari & Roshanbakht - [Duet](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/duet/) - Vida Irani - [500 Ounces of Gold](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/500-ounces-of-gold/) - Shahrzad Dadgar - [The Gambler](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-gambler/) - Karim Lakzadeh - [Bystander](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/bystander/) - Mohsen Bagheri Dastgerdi - [Champions](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/champions/) - Anastasija Bräuniger - [Not Yet](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/not-yet/) - Arian Vazirdaftari - [From Hasakah with Love](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/from-hasakah-with-love/) - Mohammad Farahani - [Save Me](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/save-me/) - Mohsen Nabavi - [Take Me Home](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/take-me-home/) - Abbas Kiarostami - [The Servant](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-servant/) - Farnoosh Abedi - [Turquoise](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/turquoise/) - Roozbeh Misaghi - [Block 9 Exit 2](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/block-9-exit-2/) - Alireza Amini - [Lovequake](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/lovequake/) - Amirhosein Torabi - [Certified Copy](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/certified-copy/) - Abbas Kiarostami - [A Very Ordinary Citizen](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-very-ordinary-citizen/) - Majid Barzegar - [The Phoenix](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-phoenix/) - Nora Niasari - [Steel Nameplate](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/steel-nameplate/) - Zanyar Azizi - [The Belief](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-belief/) - Amir Vahedi - [Open Window](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/open-window/) - Afshin Rezaei - [Away](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/away/) - Parisa Aminolahi - [Atlan](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/atlan/) - Moein Karimoddini - [A Report About Mina](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-report-about-mina/) - Kaveh Mazaheri - [The Passer](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-passer/) - Shams & Pishvaei - [The Girl’s House](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/girls-house/) - Shahram Shah Hosseini - [Mohey](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/mohey/) - Davood Khayyam - [Valderama](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/valderama/) - Abbas Amini - [Nahid](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/nahid/) - Ida Panahandeh - [Parviz](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/parviz/) - Majid Barzegar - [He](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/he/) - Sam Kalantari - [Inversion](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/inversion/) - Behnam Behzadi - [Constant Angle](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/constant-angle/) - Bita Beigi - [Simorgh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/simorgh/) - Meghdad Asadi - [The Ride](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-ride/) - Ali Khameparast Fard - [I Want To Be A King](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/i-want-to-be-a-king/) - Mehdi Ganji - [Tehran](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/tehran/) - Masoud Moein - [Impression](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/impression-xps-160/) - Tiyam Yabandeh - [Mon Amour](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/mon-amour/) - Arian Vazirdaftari - [Must Black](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/must-black/) - Baran Sarmad - [Based on Photo](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/based-on-photo/) - Elika Mehranpour - [How Can Be Both](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/how-can-be-both/) - Saeed Sourati - [On The Path](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/on-the-path/) - Amir Sarrafha - [The Salesman](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-salesman/) - Asghar Farhadi - [Mountain](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/mountain/) - Amir Naderi - [Under the Smokey Roof](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/under-the-smokey-roof/) - Pouran Derakshandeh - [Being Born](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/being-born/) - Mohsen Abdolvahab - [Breath](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/breath/) - Narges Abyar - [Parting](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/parting/) - Navid Mahmoudi - [They](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/they/) - Anahita Ghazvinizadeh - [Bridge of Sleep](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/bridge-of-sleep/) - Oktay Baraheni - [Window Horses](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/window-horses/) - Ann Marie Fleming - [Kandahar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/kandahar/) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf - [Gilane](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/gilane/) - Mohsen Abdolvahab - [Offside](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/offside/) - Jafar Panahi - [Broken Smile](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/broken-smile/) - Hiwa Aminnejad - [Two Women](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/two-women/) - Tahmineh Milani - [Close Up](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/close-up/) - Abbas Kiarostami - [Bashu, The Little Stranger](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/bashu-the-little-stranger/) - In the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in northern Sweden. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch. To increase their chances of asylum, he breaks a promise to his wife - [The Runner](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-runner/) - Amir Naderi - [The Cow](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-cow/) - Dariush Mehrjui - [Tehran: The 25th Hour](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/tehran-the-25th-hour/) - Seifollah Samadian - [Duet](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/duet-2/) - Navid Danesh - [The Boxes](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-boxes/) - Ehsan Jafari - [Blind Owl Wedding Hall](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/blind-owl-wedding-hall/) - Farshid Akhlaghipour - [Buzkashi Boys](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/buzkashi-boys/) - Sam French - [Horn](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/horn/) - Ruhollah Masroor - [More Than Two Hours](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/more-than-two-hours/) - Ali Asgari - [Needle](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/needle/) - Anahita Ghazvinizadeh - [Kahrizak, Four Views](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/kahrizak-four-views/) - Four directors of different ages and levels of experience, each present a view of the Kahrizak Charity Centre, introducing us to fascinating characters and rituals, and a reflection on life and death itself. Presented in episodes, we are introduced to the situation of the elderly; a blind and disabled man without hands and legs, who - [A Respectable Family](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-respectable-family/) - Massoud Bakhshi - [Like Someone in Love](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/like-someone-in-love/) - Abbas Kiarostami - [Poulet aux Prunes](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/chicken-with-plums/) - Marjane Satrapi - [My Sweet Pepper Land](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/my-sweet-pepper-land/) - Hiner Saleem - [It’s a Dream](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/its-a-dream/) - Mahmoud Ghaffari - [A Few Kilos of Dates for Funeral](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-few-kilos-of-dates-for-funeral/) - Saman Salur - [We Only Live Twice](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/we-only-live-twice/) - Behnam Behzadi - [The Colour of Paradise](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-colour-of-paradise/) - Majid Majidi - [Turtles Can Fly](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/turtles-can-fly/) - Bahman Ghobadi - [Rainy Seasons](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/rainy-seasons/) - Majid Barzegar - [Bitter Milk](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/bitter-milk/) - Nasser Zamiri - [Final Whistle](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/final-whistle/) - Niki Karimi - [I Wish Someone Was Waiting For Me Somewhere](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/i-wish-someone-was-waiting-for-me-somewhere/) - Babak Amini - [Going](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/going/) - Salem Salavati - [Mr Mozaffari’s Somewhat Simple Life](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/mr-mozaffaris-somewhat-simple-life/) - Abbas Nezamdoost - [Trapped](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/trapped/) - Parviz Shahbazi - [AFAR](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/afar/) - Ali Vaziri - [76 Minutes 15 Seconds](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/76-minutes-15-seconds/) - Seifollah Samadian - [Run Rostam Run](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/run-rostam-run/) - Hossein Molayemi - [A Blink of an Eye](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-blink-of-an-eye/) - Kiana Naghshineh - [Retouch](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/retouch/) - Kaveh Mazaheri - [Birthday Night](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/birthday-night/) - Omid Shams - [Waterfall](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/waterfall/) - Noora Niasari - [Animal](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/animal/) - A man who wants to pass the border hunts a ram and decides to escape disguised as the animal. Directed by: Bahman Ark, Bahram Ark Production Year: 2017 Country: Sweden Length: 119 minutes Watch The TrailerCreditsDirector: Bahram Ark, Bahman Ark Writer: Bahram Ark, Bahman Ark Cinematographer: Ali Abpak Production Designer: Bahram Ark, Bahman Ark Composer: - [Advantage](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/advantage/) - Mohamad Kart - [Blue Sky, Clean Earth](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/blue-sky-clean-earth/) - Mahyar Mandegar - [Gaze](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/gaze/) - Farnoosh Samadi - [Soheila No. 17](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/soheila-no17/) - Mahmoud Ghafari - [24 Frames](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/24-frames/) - Abbas Kiarostami - [Privacy](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/privacy/) - Ahmad Moazzemi - [Disappearance](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/disappearance/) - Ali Asgari - [About The Salesman](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/about-the-salesman/) - In the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in northern Sweden. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch. To increase their chances of asylum, he breaks a promise to his wife - [Dressage](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/dressage/) - Pooya Badkoobeh - [Redhead](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/redhead/) - Karim Lakzadeh - [Shouting At The Wind](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/shouting-at-the-wind/) - Ata Mehrad & Siavash Jamali - [Staircase](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/staircase/) - Mohsen Banihashemi - [She Who Wasn’t Tamed](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/she-who-wasnt-tamed/) - Saleh Kashefi - [The Private Part](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-private-part/) - Faezeh Alavi - [The Swallows of Kabul](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-swallows-of-kabul/) - Breitman & Gobbé-Mevellec - [Like My Name Pegah](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/like-my-name-pegah/) - Soudabeh Beizaee - [Dissect](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/dissect/) - Siavash Shahabi - [The Manchador](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-manchador/) - Kaveh Tehrani - [Elephant's Shadow](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/elephants-shadow/) - Arman Khansarian - [The Day of Duty](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-day-of-duty/) - Ali Farahani - [Passage](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/passage/) - Kimia Hendi - [Bitter Sea](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/bitter-sea/) - Fatemeh Ahmadi - [Whooping Cough](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/whooping-cough/) - Reza Tofighjoo - [#4 O'clock](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/4-oclock/) - Atefeh Mehrabi - [Manicure](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/manicure/) - Arman Fayaz - [Tattoo](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/tattoo/) - Farhad Delaram - [A Man of Integrity](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-man-of-integrity/) - Mohammad Rasoulof - [The Charmer](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-charmer/) - Milad Alami - [Numbness](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/numbness/) - Hossein Mahkam - [Suddenly A Tree](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/suddenly-a-tree/) - Safi Yazdanian - [African Violet](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/african-violet/) - Mona Zandi Haghighi - [Beloved](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/beloved/) - Yaser Talebi - [Takhti](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/takhti/) - Bahram Tavakoli - [The Orphanage](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-orphanage/) - Shahrbanoo Sadat - [The Paternal House](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-paternal-house/) - Kianoush Ayari - [Leakage](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/leakage/) - Suzan Iravanian - [Gold](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/gold/) - Parviz Shahbazi - [Reza](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/reza/) - Alireza Motamedi - [Finding Farideh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/finding-farideh/) - Farideh, an Iranian woman who had been abandoned in a holy shrine in Iran when she was six-months old and adopted by a Dutch couple, overcomes her fears and starts a personal journey to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her biological family. Directed by: Azadeh - [The Oath](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-oath/) - Mohsen Tanabndeh - [Seven And A Half](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/seven-and-a-half/) - Navid Mahmoudi - [Orange Days](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/orange-days/) - Arash Lahooti - [Gracefully](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/gracefully/) - Arash Es'haghi - [Fading Portraits](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/fading-portraits/) - Ali Shilandari - [Astigmatism](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/astigmatism/) - Majid Reza Mostafavi - [The Dark Room](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-dark-room/) - Rouhollah Hejazi - [The Chess of the Wind](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-chess-of-the-wind/) - Mohammad Reza Aslani - [Sunless Shadows](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/sunless-shadows/) - Mehrdad Oskouei - [The Badger](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-badger/) - Kazem Mollaie - [Fish and Cat](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/fish-and-cat/) - Shahram Mokri - [Mirage](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/mirage/) - Atefeh Salehi - [Far From Home](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/far-from-home/) - Sohrab Shahid Saless - [One Thousand Women](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/one-thousand-women/) - Mojgan Ilanlou - [Red Rose](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/red-rose/) - Sepideh Farsi - [Born In Evin](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/born-in-evin/) - Maryam Zaree - [I Am Forough](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/i-am-forough/) - Jahangir Kosari - [The Rain Falls Where It Will](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-rain-falls-where-it-will/) - Majid Barzegar - [District Terminal](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/district-terminal/) - Peyman is a poet living in an old district of Tehran with his mother. Trapped by his drug addiction, poverty and a forbidden love affair, he tries to survive in spite of censorship, his delusions and increasing loneliness. His path to redemption will drive him through an imaginary world, where environmental destructions and a persisting - [Zalava](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/zalava/) - Arsalan Amiri - [Barter](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/barter/) - Karamali & Arad - [Emergency](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/emergency/) - Maryam Esmikhani - [Graveyard](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/graveyard/) - Ali Daraee - [I Am Trying To Remember](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/i-am-trying-to-remember/) - Pegah Ahangarani - [Bridge](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/bridge/) - Reza Radjoo - [The Sprayer](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-sprayer/) - Farnoosh Abedi - [Unjustified](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/unjustified/) - Mohammad Reza Khavari - [One Night](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/one-night/) - Niki Karimi - [A Few Days Later](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-few-days-later/) - Niki Karimi - [The Road is Closed](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-road-is-closed/) - Vahid Hajiloui - [The Silly](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-silly/) - A young woman working in a bridal gown store has a conversation about life, love, and family. Directed by: Amir Azizi Production Year: 2011 Country: Iran Length: 10 minutes CreditsDirector: Amir Azizi Writer: Amir Azizi, Baran Kosari Producers: Elham Azizi CastBaran Kosari - [Delete](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/delete/) - Kazem Mollaie - [When The Kid Was A Kid](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/when-the-kid-was-a-kid/) - Anahita Ghazvinizadeh - [About Elly](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/about-elly/) - Asghar Farhadi - [Fireworks Wednesday](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/fireworks-wednesday/) - Asghar Farhadi - [Beautiful City](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/beautiful-city/) - Asghar Farhadi - [Dancing In The Dust](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/dancing-in-the-dust/) - Asghar Farhadi - [Ashkan, The Charmed Ring & Other Stories](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/ashkan-the-charmed-ring-and-other-stories/) - Shahram Mokri - [I Am Nasrine](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/i-am-nasrine/) - Tina Gharavi - [Opium War](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/opium-war/) - Siddiq Barmak - [Heiran](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/heiran/) - During the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan about 3 million Afghans, mostly illegal immigrants, entered Iran, causing numerous problems for the Iranian and hardly being accepted by the society. This film is the story of a 17 year old rural girl, Mahi, who falls in love with an Afghan student named Heiran, who has - [Please Don’t Disturb](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/please-dont-disturb/) - Mohsen Abdolvahab - [A Separation](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-separation/) - Asghar Farhadi - [Manuscripts Don't Burn](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/manuscripts-dont-burn/) - Mohammad Rasoulof - [The Bright Day](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-bright-day/) - Hossein Shahabi - [Do Not Worry Sara](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/do-not-worry-sara/) - Alireza Amini - [Another Day](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/another-day/) - Hassan-Fathi - [Don’t Be Tired](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/dont-be-tired/) - Roman and Maria, a tourist couple with their own disputes, face a problem in Iran with the tourism institute they have a deal with. Morteza, the fired employee of the hotel where the tourist couple are staying, has plans for them with the help of his cousin, Hossein. Directed by: Moshen Gharaei & Afshin Hashemi - [Like A Good Kid](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/like-a-good-kid/) - Arian Vazirdaftari - [The Visit](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-visit/) - Azadeh Mousavi - [Red Panda](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/red-panda/) - Ali Paknia - [Hedieh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/hedieh/) - Sahar Sotoodeh - [Dilemma](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/dilemma/) - Omid Shams - [Each Other](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/each-other/) - Sarah Tabibzadeh - [Funfair](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/funfair/) - Kaveh Mazaheri - [The President](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-president/) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf - [Crazy Castle](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/crazy-castle/) - Abolhasan Davoudi - [A Few Cubic Meters of Love](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-few-cubic-meters-of-love/) - Jamshid Mahmoudi - [Frame by Frame](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/frame-by-frame/) - Bombach & - [Love Marriage in Kabul](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/love-marriage-in-kabul/) - Amin Palangi - [Released](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/released/) - Parsamehr & Naimi - [Exam](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/exam/) - Sonia K Hadad - [Hendi and Hormoz](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/hendi-and-hormoz/) - Abbas Amini - [The Warden](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-warden/) - Nima Javidi - [The Slaughterhouse](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/the-slaughterhouse/) - Abbas Amini - [A Hairy Tale](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-hairy-tale/) - Homayoun Ghanizadeh - [None of Your Business](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/none-of-your-business/) - Kamran Heidari - [Son-Mother](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/son-mother/) - Mahnaz Mohammadi - [Pari](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/pari/) - Siamak Etemadi - [A Hero](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/films/a-hero/) - Asghar Farhadi ## FAQs - [10th Persian Film Festival](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/faq-items/curabitur-eget-leo-at-velit-imperdiet-varius-eu-ipsum-vitae-velit-congue-iaculis-vitaes/) - December 12, 2025A Selection of Acclaimed FilmsNunc euismod lobortis massa, id sollicitudin augue auctor vel. 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[On The Path](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/on-the-path/) - [2013 Academic Program](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/2013-academic-program/) - [Whooping Cough](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/whooping-cough/) - [Blue Sky Clean Earth](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/blue-sky-clean-earth/) - [Afar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/afar/) - [Animal](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/animal/) - [Waterfall](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/waterfall/) - [Birthday Night](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/birthday-night/) - [Retouch](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/retouch/) - [Run Rostam Run](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/run-rostam-run/) - [Window Horses](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/window-horses/) - [Trapped](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/trapped/) - [Mr Mozaffaris Somewhat Simple Life](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/mr-mozaffaris-somewhat-simple-life/) - [Going](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/going/) - [I wish Someone Was Waiting For Me Somewhere](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/i-wish-someone-was-waiting-for-me-somewhere/) - [Final Whistle](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/final-whistle/) - [Turtles Can Fly](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/turtles-can-fly/) - [Colour of Paradise](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/colour-of-paradise/) - [Kilos of Dates for Funeral](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/kilos-of-dates-for-funeral/) - [It’s a Dream](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/its-a-dream/) - [From Tehran to London](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/from-tehran-to-london/) - [My Sweet Pepper Land](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/my-sweet-pepper-land/) - [Chicken with Plums](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/chicken-with-plums/) - [Like Someone in Love](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/like-someone-in-love/) - [Kahrizak](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/kahrizak/) - [Four Views](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/four-views/) - [Needle](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/needle/) - [More Than Two Hours](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/more-than-two-hours/) - [Horn](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/horn/) - [Buzkashi Boys](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/buzkashi-boys/) - [The Boxes](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/the-boxes/) - [Blind Owl Wedding Hall](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/blind-owl-wedding-hall/) - [Under The Colours](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/under-the-colours/) - [Duet 2](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/duet-2/) - [Tehran: The 25th Hour](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/tehran-the-25th-hour/) - [Bashu](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/bashu/) - [The Little Stranger](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/the-little-stranger/) - [Close Up](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/close-up/) - [Two Women](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/two-women/) - [Broken Smile](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/broken-smile/) - [Offside](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/offside/) - [Kandahar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/kandahar/) - [Gilane](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/gilane/) - [Bridge of Sleep](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/bridge-of-sleep/) - [They](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/they/) - [Being Born](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/being-born/) - [Breath](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/breath/) - [Under the Smokey Roof](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/under-the-smokey-roof/) - [11th Edition](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/11th-edition/) - [Certified Copy](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/certified-copy/) - [Ali Zarnegar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/ali-zarnegar/) - [Endless Borders](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/endless-borders/) - [Reading Lolita in Tehran](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/reading-lolita-in-tehran/) - [Eran Riklis](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/eran-riklis/) - [Niloufar Taghizadeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/niloufar-taghizadeh/) - [Googoosh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/googoosh/) - [Roxana](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/roxana/) - [Terrestrial Verses](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/terrestrial-verses/) - [Alireza Khatami](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/alireza-khatami/) - [Nader Saeivar](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/nader-saeivar/) - [The Witness](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/the-witness/) - [Behtash Sanaeeha](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/behtash-sanaeeha/) - [Maryam Moghaddam](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/maryam-moghaddam/) - [My Favourite Cake](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/my-favourite-cake/) - [Zar Amir](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/zar-amir/) - [Guy Nattiv](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/guy-nattiv/) - [Tatami](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/tatami/) - [Cause of Death Unknown](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/cause-of-death-unknown/) - [Tahmineh Bahram](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/tahmineh-bahram/) - [Hunchback](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/hunchback/) - [Brother's Horn](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/brothers-horn/) - [Majid Asadi](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/majid-asadi/) - [Skin of Water](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/skin-of-water/) - [Somayeh](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/somayeh/) - [Alone Together](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/alone-together/) - [Omid Mirzaei](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/omid-mirzaei/) - [Bonus](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/bonus/) - [Reza Nejati](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/reza-nejati/) - [In the Shadow of the Cypress](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/in-the-shadow-of-the-cypress/) - [Shirin Sohani](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/shirin-sohani/) - [Empty Your Pockets](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/empty-your-pockets/) - [Tara Aghdashloo](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/tara-aghdashloo/) - [My Father](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/my-father/) - [Shorts Session 25](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/shorts-session-25/) - [The Great Yawn of History](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/the-great-yawn-of-history/) - [Aliyar Rasti](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/aliyar-rasti/) - [2025 Academic Program](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/2025-academic-program/) - [CineCircle](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/cinecircle/) - [Woman and Child](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/woman-and-child/) - [Saeed Roustaee](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/saeed-roustaee/) - [It Was Just an Accident](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/it-was-just-an-accident/) - [The Things You Kill](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_category/the-things-you-kill/) ## Portfolio Skills - [IN COMPETITION](https://www.persianfilmfestival.com/portfolio_skills/in-competition/) - 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