Azin Feizabadi is as an Iranian-born Berlin based filmmaker, visual artist & film curator. His fiction feature debut Uchronia premiered in 2019, the same year his book After Cinema – Fictions from a Collective Memory – a collection of short stories, prose, and short screenplays was published by Archive Books. His latest short film In Transit premiered at CPH:DOX, and was nominated for German Film Critics Association Award 2023. His recent short film Silence of Homa premierede in 2025 at Festival international du film de Fribourg and Hamburg Short Film Festival a.o. He has screened, staged, published and exhibited his works at The Guggenheim Museum New York, Berlinale Forum Expanded, MMK Frankfurt, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, House of World Cultures Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, RWE Kino Museum Ostwall Dortmund, Sharjah Biennial UAE, Queens Museum New York, Savvy Contemporary Berlin, et al.  

His film curatorial work includes the three-days long performance and screening program lumbung Film: AFTER CINEMA on the occasion of the documenta fifteen in 2022 in Kassel; the screening/reading event Film Klubben: Cinema Rex at Moderna Museet in 2023 in Stockholm and the open air film screening series UNDER THE CLOAK OF NIGHT: Total Recall & Radical Fiction in 2025 at Klosterruine Berlin.

Azin Feizabadi has headed the short film section of the Kasseler Dokfest in 2022 & 2023. He is a member of the Berlinale Shorts selection committee since 2020 & Berlinale Panorama since 2024.

Contact for detailed bio & cv.


Articles & texts (selection)

Iran is slipping through our fingers, desisfilm © desisifilm, 2023, José Sarmiento Hinojosa

“Glittering Barbieblood” / through the eyes of …, shortsblog.berlinale.de © Berlinale Shorts, 2021, Azin Feizabadi

“Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje” / through the eyes of …, shortsblog.berlinale.de © Berlinale Shorts, 2021, Azin Feizabadi

Ebram the Breeze, norient.com © Norient Verein für Kulturproduktion, 2020, Azin Feizabadi

Grenzgänger im Zeitfluss, Zitty, 7th Issue 2018 © GCM, Irmgard Berner

Once Upon A Time, Once Upon No Time, Introductory Notes, 2018 © Galerie Wedding, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Reiseerinnerungen, Das Kulturmagazin des Westens, September 2014 © K.West, Stefanie Stadel

History - Recollection - Identity, 25/25/25 Catalog, 2015, © Kunststiftung NRW, Daniela Ihrig & Dr. Kurt Wettengle

Reloading Images, ON RAGE Catalog, 2010, © HKW, Valerie Smith (Extract)

How To Do Things With Words, BOMBlog, November 2010, © BOMB Magazine, Thom Donovan

Atomic Fusion, Qantara, March 2006 © qantara.de, Ariana Mirza

Inquiries for works:

SILENCE OF HOMA
Iconoclast Germany

UCHRONIA
Amerikafilm

CRYPTOMNESIA
CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.

THE NEGOTIATION
azinfeizabadistudio(at)gmx.de
or Kaya Behkalam

Other:
azinfeizabadistudio(at)gmx.de


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