Mohsen M.Shasha

BIOGRAPHIE

Born in 1987 in Kurdistan, Mohsen had an unsatisfying appetite for reading adventure literature of Jules Verne’s from a very young age. Following well-known weekly magazines like Kaihan- Bacheha for the children, also reading collections of scientific and literal books for children, shaped his young character as a book worm. With the appearance of contemporary technology, Mohsen got to have his first computer at the age of fourteen and his first video (mini VHS) camera at fifteen. These two much changed the story for him, as he began discovering the abilities of both devices on his own. Learning video editing programs and how to captures the videos he shot on his camera opened up new doors towards his future. He wrote his first script in Kurdish at the age of fifteen. Meanwhile, he continued practicing writing in Farsi, studying art history, reading Persian literature, and learning English as his third language in those years. He enrolled in the Tehran University of Art after attending the national Concours and scoring 13th among more than thousands of students. Enrolling in the MFA film production at NYU Tisch in 2012 after graduation from BA in Cinema, he had to drop out after the first semester due to his father’s passing in a car crash. He later enrolled in Prague Film School’s Filmmaking Diploma with the support of Ralph NJ Foundation based in New York. After receiving Special Recognition from Berlinale 70th for his co-produced short film “The Kites” in early 2020, Mohsen is producing and co-writing his first feature film in Kurdish, The Storks, which has made it into the Cannes Film Residency in late 2020. Mohsen is now a candidate for MA Time-based Media in the Linz University of Arts in Austria. He has finished shooting his latest short fiction, Blockage in Iran, in mid-2021. Mohsen is preparing to shoot his first fashion promotion in Paris while working on his first feature narrative proposal and finishing a feature hyper docudrama entitled, Where is Home? Mohsen writes poems and short stories in English and Persian while drafting out his first novel in English. Thus, he considers himself a writer, director, and producer with skills in distribution and sales. He is fluent in English and Persian, familiar with Arabic and Italian while learning French, Turkish, and German.

FILMOGRAPHIE