Majed Neisi

Majed Neisi was born in 1981 in a makeshift hospital in southern Iran during a bombardment in the Iran-Iraq War. Since his teenage years he has dedicated himself to examining the pathology of war in a succession of Middle Eastern battlegrounds in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan. The archetypal outsider, this Arabic-speaking Iranian inhabits the no-man's-land in the post September 11 confrontation between the West and Islam. The over dozen films he has directed and produced examine ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances and have premiered at major European film festivals including IDFA, Dok Leipzig, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Visions du Reél, Cinéma du réel and Festival dei Popoli and are distributed internationally. Neisi is currently engaged in several long-term documentary projects in the Middle East.