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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 upcoming film The Apprentice (2024).
Ali Abbasi was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran. He is a director and writer, known for Border (2018), Holy Spider (2022) and The Last of Us (2023).
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 long...
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.
Nov 12, 2018 · Ali Abbasi’s Top 10. 10. Born in Iran, Ali Abbasi gave up his studies at Tehran Polytechnic University in 2002 and traveled to Europe, where he finally settled in Stockholm, Sweden, to study architecture. In 2007, he graduated and subsequently enrolled at the National Film School of Denmark, where he studied directing.
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...
Mar 10, 2023 · Ali Abbasi – an Iranian director long resident in Denmark – is certainly not afraid of the dark. Following his slow-burn maternity horror Shelley (2016) and the disturbing Oscar-nominated romantic fantasy Border (2018), Abbasi’s latest is Holy Spider, based on a real-life early-2000s nocturnal killing spree carried out by a self ...
Jan 17, 2023 · Iranian diaspora directors Ali Abbasi and Ana Lily Amirpour have keenly followed the wave of protests sparked in Iran by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for allegedly wearing a loose hijab.
Jan 13, 2023 · Holy Spider: Directed by Ali Abbasi. With Alice Rahimi, Diana Al Hussen, Soraya Helli, Mehdi Bajestani. A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Nov 18, 2022 · More or less since the first screening of Holy Spider [+. ] in this year’s Cannes competition, Ali Abbasi ’s critical and stark account of Iran’s “Spider Killer” who “cleansed the streets” of 16 prostitutes in 2001 has stirred up controversy.
