Rafi Pitts

Rafi Pitts (b. 1967, Mashad, Iran) has an Iranian mother and British father. The family left Iran in 1978. Pitts studied film in London and, in 1991, he moved to France, where he made his first short, In Exile, that same year. He made his second short, Salandar, in 1994. His feature debut, The Fifth Season (1997), became an international festival hit. In 1999 he directed his second feature, Sanam (Karlovy Vary 1999) and in 2003 the documentary Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty. Zemestan (2006) is his third feature.

MFF Karlovy Vary