Holy Spider
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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 The Last of Us (2023).
The Apprentice is a 2024 biographical historical drama film directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabriel Sherman.Starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, the film examines Trump's career as a real estate businessman in New York in the 1970s and 80s. The film also stars Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, and Martin Donovan.. The film had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May ...
Holy Spider (Persian: عنکبوت مقدس, romanized: Ankabut-e moqaddas) is a 2022 Persian-language crime thriller film co-produced, co-written and directed by Ali Abbasi, starring Mehdi Bajestani and Zar Amir Ebrahimi.
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 9, 2022 · 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 20, 2022 · Abbasi spoke about making the first “Persian (film) noir,” breaking the conventions of European and Iranian cinema, and why he’ll never be a “Louis Vuitton filmmaker.”
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.
May 17, 2022 · A female journalist in Iran goes on the hunt for a serial killer in the first trailer for Ali Abbasi’s Cannes competition entry Holy Spider.
