Native name خشایار مصطفوی Name Khashayar Mostafavi Years active 2004–present | Occupation Writer and Filmmaker Nationality Iranian | |
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Notable work Fight Me (Film)To Hell (Book) Alma mater | ||
Khashayar Mostafavi (Persian: خشایار مصطفوی; born in Iran in 1982) is an Iranian writer and filmmaker.
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Biography
Khashayar Mostafavi finished his undergraduate studies in performance arts in University of Tehran and received his Masters in Directing from Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran. In addition to directing several plays in Tehran, He has directed two feature-length political documentaries Our Cherry Orchard and Fight Me, and several other short films. They were broadcast on international media such as BBC and VOA. Mostafavi has also written four books Birth of Iranian Drama, To Hell (a collection of short stories) and Sex, Anarchism and Cruelty In Panic Theater of Mr Arrabaland The Days Slowly (Three screenplays). After the publication of his book Birth of Iranian Drama, Mostafavi was accused of insulting Islamic sanctities and had to emigrate from Iran to Germany under the pressure of Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security. Mostafavi's latest feature film, Being There (Dasein), which discuss the problems of immigrants, is in German. Being There screened for the first time at the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival in China.