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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).
Mar 10, 2023 · “All these prizewinning Iranian movies are complicit”: an interview with Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi. This fiery interview with the Iranian Danish director, conducted during the 2022 London Film Festival, took place against a backdrop of growing protests and increasing repression in Iran.
May 19, 2022 · Cannes: Ali Abbasi's movie about a notorious Iranian serial killer is a risky undertaking, but one its director told IndieWire he had been thinking about for years.
Nov 12, 2018 · 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.
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.
The Iran-born, Denmark-based writer-director studied at the National Film School of Denmark before making his feature debut with the 2016 horror film, Shelley. He gained international acclaim with his sophomore film, 2018's Border, which won the Un Certain Regard award at the Cannes Film Festival.
