Khashayar Mostafavi

Khashayar Mostafavi (; 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. 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. 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. 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.

Works

Books/Publications

To Hell, Gardon Publication, Berlin, Germany, 2013.

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