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2008–present. 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. He has received various accolades, including an ...
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- 1981 (age 41–42), Tehran, Iran
- 2008–present
Ali Abbasi. Director: Border. 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).
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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. By Eric Kohn. May 19, 2022 11: ...
May 20, 2022 · Ali Abbasi doesn’t do categories. Born and raised in Tehran, the 41-year-old director made his name with Scandinavian movies that balance uneasily between kitchen-sink realism and supernatural ...
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MORE: For Iranian Filmmaker Ali Abbasi, Making 'Holy Spider' Was a Political Act (Exclusive) Fellini changed the trajectory of Abbasi's life, and still inspires his approach to the filmmaking process. "I loved how he would talk about getting an idea," he says of the Italian auteur.
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-identified vigilante targeting sex workers in Mashhad, Iran.
Nov 9, 2022 · Nov 9, 2022. The citizens of Mashhad, Iran, found themselves unexpectedly swept up in a scandal in 2000 and 2001 when 16 female sex workers were targeted and killed throughout the city by the so-called "Spider Killer." 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 ...
