| Alireza Ghasemi | |
| Native Name: | علیرضا قاسمی |
| Birth Date: | 1990 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality: | Iranian |
| Education: | Art University of Tehran |
| Occupation: | Filmmaker |
Alireza Ghasemi (Persian: علیرضا قاسمی; Born 1990) is an Iranian screenwriter, film director and producer. notably directing In the Land of Brothers, for which he won the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.[1]
Alireza Ghasemi was born in 1990. He began his education at the Film and Theater Department of Tehran University of Art in 2012. He received his MFA in filmmaking from Tehran University of Art and spent an exchange year at Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Germany.[2]
Ghasemi became the director of the 11th Nahal International Short Film Festival in 2014, and founded and directed the Globe International Silent Film Festival in 2015.[3] He is known for directing the award-winning short films Better than Neil Armstrong (2019) and Extra Sauce (2020) and Solar Eclipse (2021). His short film Lunch Time received a nomination for the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 70th Annual Cannes Film Festival in 2017. His debut feature film In the Land of Brothers, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2024,[4] earning him the Best Directing Award in the World Cinema Dramatic section.[5]
| 2024 | In the Land of Brothers | Premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival |
| 2021 | Solar Eclipse | |||||
| 2019 | Arezo | |||||
| 2019 | Extra Sauce | |||||
| 2019 | Better than Neil Armstrong | |||||
| 2017 | Lunch Time | |||||
| 2016 | Frequency | |||||
| 2015 | Shortcut |