Kaveh Bakhtiari
Kaveh BAKHTIARI (1978, Iran) was born in Tehran and moved at the age of 9 to Switzerland. He studied Film in Lausanne and achieved success at film festivals with his short The Suitcase (2007). In 2009, he was nominated for the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker’s Award. His first featurelength documentary Stop-Over was selected by the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Festival 2013 and nominated for an European Film Award.
Filmography
(selection) L'écriveur (2001, short), Le pays de Vaud (2002, short), Les mille mais une nuit (2002, short), Bleu-Blanc (2003, short), A demain (2004, short), Icogne (2005, short), Portrait chez Etienne (2005, short), La valise/The Suitcase (2007, short), L'escale/Stop-Over (2013, doc)
Kaveh Bakhtiari op IFFR
L'escale
100'
Zwitserland
IFFR 2014