Ali Abbasi

Ali Abbasi

Birth : 1981-01-01, Tehran, Iran

History

Ali Abbasi (Persian: علی عباسی, born 1981, Tehran) is an Iranian-Danish filmmaker. He attended Tehran Polytechnic until 2002, when he emigrated to Europe to study architecture at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. After earning his Bachelor of Arts in 2007, he enrolled at the National Film School of Denmark, earning his degree in 2011 with the short film M for Markus. He lives in Copenhagen but continues to hold an Iranian passport.

Profile

Ali Abbasi
Ali Abbasi

Movies

Holy Spider
Holy Spider
Writer
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Holy Spider
Holy Spider
Director
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Home: A Soldier's Mind Is Always at War
Home: A Soldier's Mind Is Always at War
Queen of Hearts
Queen of Hearts
Thanks
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.
Border
Border
Screenplay
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Border
Border
Director
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Shelley
Shelley
Writer
Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned...
Shelley
Shelley
Director
Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned...
M for Markus
M for Markus
Editor
A female police detective, TESS, discovers a mutilated body in a crime scene. Her search for the killer leads her to the young and innocent-looking MARKUS. Immediately attracted to Markus, her attraction to him leads her deep into a dreamy and grotesque world where her relationship to Markus is changed upside down - and inside out.
M for Markus
M for Markus
Writer
A female police detective, TESS, discovers a mutilated body in a crime scene. Her search for the killer leads her to the young and innocent-looking MARKUS. Immediately attracted to Markus, her attraction to him leads her deep into a dreamy and grotesque world where her relationship to Markus is changed upside down - and inside out.
M for Markus
M for Markus
Director
A female police detective, TESS, discovers a mutilated body in a crime scene. Her search for the killer leads her to the young and innocent-looking MARKUS. Immediately attracted to Markus, her attraction to him leads her deep into a dreamy and grotesque world where her relationship to Markus is changed upside down - and inside out.
I mørket er lyset
I mørket er lyset
Writer
I mørket er lyset
I mørket er lyset
Director
Hamlet
Hamlet
Director
Described as a “bloody and insane” take on the Shakespeare play.