Mahmoud Ghaffari

Born in Tehran in 1976, Mahmoud Ghaffari entered the landscape of Iranian cinema with a dozen award-winning shorts and making his first feature film, It's a Dream. Hair, The second feature film based on true events that follows three girl mute Iranian teenage athletes who qualify for the World Karate Championships. Subsequently, the filmmaker shot No. 17 Soheila (2017), the story of a 40-year-old woman desperate to find a husband in a patriarchal and religious world that prevents her from doing so. In parallel to The Apple Day, which was selected for the Berlinale 2022 among others, he made Doggy Love, a documentary about the fate of the many stray dogs in Iran and how a couple tries to help them.