BIOGRAPHIE

Mohammadreza Farzad (1978) was born in Iran, Teheran. He started his career as a poet and literary translator. His career as a documentary filmmaker started with “Into Thin Air” (2011) and “Blames and Flames'' (2012). Both short films premiered at Berlinale Forum Expanded and screened, among others, at Sheffield Doc/Fest, Moscow IFF, CPH:DOX, Hot Springs IFF, Oberhausen, Ji.hlava IDFF, Jeonju IFF, Molodist, and Walker Art Centre. His third and fourth documentary films “Forget-Me-Not Egg” (2013) and “Wedding: A Film” (2015) premiered respectively at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and Next Masters section of DOK Leipzig and screened in numerous festivals including Ankara IFF, Open City, DMZ, Tempo IFF, and Parnu. Farzad has been a PhD student at the Film Factory headed by the legendary Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr. He is currently working on his first feature film “A Gaze Long into the Abyss”.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2025 Ghesseh Bar Yad Ast Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Script, Text, Script, Text
• 2023 Pouk Director
• 2022 Majmouan L Director, Director, Script, Script, Script, Script
• 2012 Falgoosh Director, Referent, Sales, Production, Script, Script
• 2012 Revolutionary Memories of Bahman who loved Leila Referent, Sales, Script, Script