Khashayar Mostafavi

Iranian-German writer and filmmaker (born 1982)

Khashayar Mostafavi
خشایار مصطفوی
Born	1982 Iran
Alma mater	Tarbiat Modares University University of Tehran
Occupation(s)	Writer and Filmmaker
Years active	2004–present
Notable work	Dasein (Film) To Hell (Book)

Khashayar Mostafavi (Persian: خشایار مصطفوی; born 1982) is an Iranian-German writer and filmmaker.

Biography

Khashayar Mostafavi finished his undergraduate studies in performance arts at University of Tehran and received his Masters in Directing from Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran.^[1] In addition to directing several plays in Tehran, he has directed two feature-length political documentaries, Our Cherry Orchard and Fight Me, and several other short films. They were broadcast on international media such as BBC and VOA. Mostafavi has also written four books: Birth of Iranian Drama, To Hell (a collection of short stories), Sex, Anarchism, and Cruelty In Panic Theater of Mr. Arrabal, and The Days Slowly (three screenplays). After the publication of Birth of Iranian Drama, Mostafavi was accused of insulting Islamic sanctities and had to emigrate from Iran to Germany under pressure from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security.^[2] Mostafavi's feature film, Being There (Dasein), which discuss the problems of immigrants, is in German. Being There first screened at the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival.^[3] He has lived in Germany since 2013 and works for NDR Fernsehen. His latest film The truth and nothing but the truth is about a filmmaker who researches the complex network of money laundering and the ideological expansion of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Germany. He comes across a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who lives in Hamburg in the guise of a businessman. The film tells the story of the filmmaker’s three-year journey to reveal his true identity.^[4]

Works

Books/Publications

Khashayar, Mostafavi (2015). The Days Slowly (Three screenplays). Postskript Publication. ISBN 978-153-088-576-3. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
Khashayar, Mostafavi (2015). Sex, Anarchism and Cruelty in Panic Theater of Mr. Arrabal. Postskript Publication. ISBN 978-600-122-028-9. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
To Hell, Gardon Publication, Berlin, Germany, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86433-106-0
Khashayar, Mostafavi (2012). The Birth of Iranian Drama (Mirza Agha Tabrizi's approach in compositing, Iranian Traditional drama and western theatre in Qajar era). Afraz Publication. ISBN 978-964-243-731-3. Retrieved 2023-01-27.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer
2004	We are done (Short fiction film) – 7min
2008	Anti love (Short fiction film) – 10min ^[5]
2009	Grasses of the Meadow (Short fiction film) – 17min
2012	Thirty years of loneliness (Short Documentary) – 12min
2012	Our Cherry Orchard (Documentary) – 54min ^[6]
2015	Fight Me (Documentary) – 97min ^[7]^[8]
2017	Bye Bye, dear Hamburg (Short Documentary) – 15min ^[9]
2017	Dasein (Fiction) – 92min ^[10]
2017	Being There (Factual/Documentary) – 93min
2021	The truth and nothing but the truth (Documentary) – 121min ^[11]

References

^ "Biography: Khashayar Mostafavi". Hamburger Media School.
^ Kahshayar Mostafavi, To Hell, 241 p, Gardon Publication, Berlin, Germany 2013. Archived 2015-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
^ "GERMAN FILMS & CO-PRODUCTIONS AT SHANGHAI 2017". German Films. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ Film trailer on YouTube
^ Anti Love in The Voice of America (VOA) international multimedia broadcaster
^ Our Cherry Orchard in The Voice of America (VOA) international multimedia broadcaster
^ Watch Documentary, Fight Me
^ "Fight Me". Cine Pobre Film Festival.
^ "Bye Bye liebes Hamburg". IMDb.
^ "Dasein". IMDb.
^ "The Truth and Nothing But the Truth". IMDb.