Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Apprentice
2024
Director, Producer
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat...
Holy Spider
2022
Writer, Director, Producer
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 ca...
Home: A Soldier's Mind Is Always at War
2022
A soldier battling PTSD after the loss of his close friends is forced to face home intruders.
Queen of Hearts
2019
Thanks
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the pic...
Border
2018
Director, 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 ter...
Shelley
2016
Director, 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 thin...
M for Markus
2011
Editor, Director, 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 MA...
I mørket er lyset
2010
Writer, Director
Officer Relaxing After Duty
2008
Writer, Director
The first short by Ali Abbasi, a fiction shot during his studies at The National Film School of Denmark.
Hamlet
N/A
Director
Described as a “bloody and insane” take on the Shakespeare play.