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).