Abdolreza Kahani (b. 1973, Nishapur, Iran) was involved in the theatre from age 13. He began his film career two years later. After making his first short film The Smile (1988), he gained his Bachelor's degree in acting from Islamic Azad University in Tehran and then a Master's in direction from the University of Tehran. In 2002 he shot his first docudrama Empty Hands and, five years later, he debuted in features with Adam (2007), a mystical tale about a village where a death occurs for the first time in many years. His second feature, the black-and-white marital drama Over There (Aan ja, 2008) won the main Golden Alexander prize at the Thessaloniki IFF. The psychological picture Twenty (Bist, 2009) took away the Special Jury Prize from KVIFF 2009. He turned to the comedy genre in Nothing (Hich, 2010), Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (Asb heyvan-e najibi ast, 2011) and Needlessly and Causelessly (Bikhod & Bi Jahat, 2012).
MFF Karlovy Vary
