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Ali Abbasi ( Persian: علی عباسی, born 1981) is an Iranian-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.
Ali Abbasi was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran. He is a director and writer, known for Border (2018), Holy Spider (2022) and Shelley (2016).
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- Tehran, Iran
For filmmaker Ali Abbasi, who was studying as a student in Tehran at the time of the killings, the story became the basis of a project that he would spend the next 20 years working to get made. That film, Holy Spider, untangles the Spider Killer murders and the man, Saeed Hanaei, behind them.
May 19, 2022 · Filmmaker Ali Abbasi was a college student in Tehran at the time and baffled by the response. “It was insane,” he said in a recent interview with IndieWire, but even more surprising was how...
Nov 12, 2018 · The Iranian-born Swedish director of Border and Shelley shares his personal list of the greatest films ever made, from Pasolini to Lynch. He explains why he admires their beauty, politics, formalism, and hypnosis.
Jan 13, 2023 · A journalist investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the 'Spider Killer' in Mashhad, Iran. The film is based on a true story and won the Best Actress award at Cannes 2022.
May 20, 2022 · The director of the Oscar-nominated 'Border' is in the Cannes competition lineup with a story of a serial killer determined to "cleanse" the holy Iranian city of Mashhad. By Scott Roxborough. May...
