Biography

Hamid Yousefi (born November 1, 1992) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, researcher, and producer.
Yousefi began his filmmaking career at the age of 15 while attending the School of Broadcasting in Iran
He holds a master’s degree in Dramatic Literature from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran.

In 2019, he was recognized as a promising talent at the Fajr International Film Festival.

His first professional work, “Cinema: The Unknown Exhibition and Our Story” (2015), was screened in the Art and Experience Cinema in 2019. The film consists of five episodes portraying the mental narratives of the audience about a Qajar painting. Yousefi reconstructed the Qajar era in this film, successfully reconstructing the era through set design and construction. The film includes a collage of Ali Hatami’s films, which was a new postmodern move in Iranian short cinema at the time, leading to the use of this technique in some Iranian films afterward.

His next film, “Hearing Aid,” was made in 2018 with Majid Barzegar as the producer. This film addresses a social issue and stars Panteha Apanah and Behzad Dorani. It has participated in several international festivals.

The film “Hearing Aid” was distributed by the German company Ag and Ar and produced by Majid Barzegar.

In 2022, he directed the film “Abulhool,”[4] a free adaptation of Sophocles’ “Oedipus .” This literary work was also the subject of his undergraduate thesis, co-written with Romina Roshanbin, a cinema critic.

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