Ali Asgari
Director, Disappearance
Ali Asgari was born in Tehran, Iran. He studied cinema in Italy and is an alumnus of Berlinale Talent Campus. Two of his short films More Than Two Hours (2013) and The Silence (2016, co-directed by Farnoosh Samadi) were in competition at Cannes Film Festival where they competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or. His short film The Baby premiered in competition of Venice Film Festival in 2014. Disappearance is his first feature film.