Milad Tangshir

Born in 1983 in Tehran, Iran. He is a founding member of the Iranian rock band Ahoora, releasing three albums. In 2011, he moved to Italy and started his studies in Cinema at Turin University. Since 2012, he has made shorts films which have been screened at various International festivals and have received awards. Among them, Displaced about the exodus of immigrant on the Balkan route, shot in Slovenia, Austria and Croatia. His virtual reality film VR Free - shot in the Turin Prison - was presented at numerous festivals including Venice International Film Festival 2019 and Sundance Film Festival 2020. In late 2019, his first feature documentary Star Stuff (shot in Chile, South Africa and Canary Islands) premiered at Torino Film Festival.