Jafar Najafi

Jafar Najafi, Iranian filmmaker and photographer. Born in 1986. He started his career in cinema as sound assistant and photographer from when he was just 17; Later on he developed his career and worked as an assistant director and cameraman in some projects. After around 10 years from his early start on this career, he made his first television documentary named "To the color of existence" in 2018 for IRIB channel of Chahar-Mahal-Bakhtiyari. In 2019 he made Asho that premiered in IDFA 2019 and after that got a lot of attention and awards at film festivals around the globe. Najafi is more interested in depicting traditional beliefs and faiths from his own culture and how they affect people's life, women rights or children; and you can see this vision vividly in both of his films.