Director
Ali Abbasi
45 years · Tehran, Iran · 9 films
Ali Abbasi (Persian: علی عباسی, born 1981) is an Iranian-Swedish-Danish filmmaker. He is known for his films "Shelley" (2016), "Border" (2018), "Holy Spider" (2022), and "The Apprentice" (2024). Abbasi also directed the last two episodes of the first season of the series "The Last of Us"". He has received various accolades, including an Un Certain Regard award, four Robert Awards, and a German Film Award, nominations for seven European Film Awards, a Goya Award, and two Guldbagge Awards. Abbasi attended Tehran Polytechnic until 2002, when he emigrated to Sweden to study architecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. After earning his bachelor of arts in 2007, he enrolled at the National Film School of Denmark, earning a degree in 2011 with the short film "M for Markus".
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Filmography 8
The Apprentice
2024 · Director, Producer
On Plex
Holy Spider
2022 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Home: A Soldier's Mind Is Always at War
2022 · Actor
On Tubi TV
Border
2018 · Director, Screenplay
On Plex
Shelley
2016 · Director, Writer
On Philo
M for Markus
2011 · Editor, Director
I mørket er lyset
2010 · Director, Writer
Officer Relaxing After Duty
2008 · Writer, Director