He first studied architecture in Paris before turning to filmmaking. He directed his first medium-length documentary, Mothers of Martyrs, in 2004. In 2010, he made Bassidji, in which he attempted to dialogue with the defenders of the Iranian regime. He continued this approach with Iranian (2014), where he convinced supporters of the regime to stay with him for two days. His films My Worst Enemy and Where God Is Not were premiered at the Berlinale in 2023 (the second of which won the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Berlinale Forum), and deal with the violence of interrogation and detention in Iran.
Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
