Holy Spider
2023
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Iranian-Danish filmmaker
- 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.
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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).
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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.
In conversation with A.frame, Abbasi discusses the long artistic journey he took bringing Holy Spider to the screen and the political act of depicting women's bodies within Iranian cinema. (The filmmaker, who lives in Denmark, shot the film in Jordan, thus bypassing Iranian state censorship.)
The writer-director behind 'Holy Spider' on 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Still Life' and more.
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.
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 ...
