Ali Jaberansari
Born in Tehran (Iran) in 1981, Ali JABERANSARI moved to Vancouver, Canada in his teens. In 2008, after spending a year attending Abbas Kiarostami's filmmaking workshop back in Tehran, he decided to follow his real passion for making films by studying at the London Film School.
His graduation short film, Aman (2011), was awarded the Cine+ prize at the Premiers Plans Film Festival in Angers, France and the MEO Best Student Film prize at Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival.
His feature film debut, Falling Leaves (2013), premiered at Montreal World Film Festival in 2013 and won the Federico Fellini Award for best international newcomer at Tiburon International Film Festival in California USA.
His latest feature film, funded by the Hubert Bals Fund, Tehran: City of Love (2018), premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and IFFR. It has screened at over 20 film festivals worldwide and won the Youth Jury Prize at Sofia International Film Festival, Best Actress Prize at Beijing International Film Festival, and Ecumenical Jury Prize at Miskolc International Film Festival in Hungary. The film was distributed theatrically in the UK by New Wave Films in October 2019.
Filmography
AMAN (2011, short), Falling Leaves (2013), Tehran: City of Love (2018)
Ali Jaberansari at IFFR
The Surrogate
Teresa is a single mother working as a maid in a resort in Cancun catering to foreign guests picking up their babies delivered through Mexican surrogates. The surrogacy agency promises white sand beaches and a cute little baby, but when Teresa decides to become a surrogate herself, she soon realises that not everything is as it’s pretended to be.
100'
Mexico
CM 2023
Radio Dreams
91'
USA
IFFR 2016
Tehran: City of Love
Melancholy and dry humour characterise the stories of three characters looking for love, who don’t fit the norms in Tehran.
102'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019