I was born in Tehran in 1984 and lived more than most of half of my life there. This is where I went to technical high school for visual arts and later to Art university of Tehran for a BA in set and costume design for theatre. After some years of woking on sets of short films, I left Iran in 2009. I initially moved to France, where my cousins lived in the suburb of Paris. For a while I tried to settle down by learning French and working in a shop. But eventually moved to UK in search of better opportunities. In 2014 I got into a master program in Character Animation at the University of Arts of London and graduated with my short film"Gilgamesh". Effected by anti- immigration policies of the time in the UK, I had to leave right after graduation, so I relocated to Berlin where I live and work till this day.
My main focus in my work shifted from mythology and folklore in the first years to social and environmental justice in the recent years. I work as a freelance animation director and am interested in experimental animation techniques, combining analog and digital, to bring to life characters and their stories.
I have just came back from the Open Workshop animation residency in Viborg where I was working on my new short animation in development.