Bahador Shahidi, born 1975 in Rasht, Iran, worked as a film journalist and reviewer between 1995 and 1997 in weekly magazine Voice of The North in Tehran, Iran. He moved to Stockholm, Sweden in August 2000, and studied at Stockholm Film Academy 2006-2008. Since then he's directed various short films (”Memories of a room”, ”The unwritten monologue of Fagin”, ”Gustaf” , ”My moon”, ”Iranian Kiss”, "Jimmy The Wrestler" and "Leyla), music video and commercials