Mohammad Abdi

Mohammad Abdi (Persian: محمد عبدی, Tehran, Iran, September 1974) is an Iranian author, film critic and art researcher.

Career Abdi started his career in 1990. He has written articles and film reviews for many publications both in Persian and English.

In 2003, Abdi along with a few other Iranian film critics, was arrested in Iran charged with "promoting western culture", consequently Abdi left Iran in 2005 and since then, he has been living in London, UK.

Abdi has been member of jury in a few film festivals such as Busan, Moscow, Thessaloniki and Kyiv. His first novel called "Five Women" was published London in 2020.

Films Mohammad Abdi has made documentary films on famous Iranian cultural figures such as Ebrahim Golestan(2018), Susan Taslimi(2019) and Reza Ghassemi(2013), all premiered at SOAS, University of London.