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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).
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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.
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.
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 ...
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 · 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...
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.