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Yaser Talebi,Born in Northern Iran in 1982,is a film director, producer, screenwriter and editor who has also made his name as a creative director. As a member of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association (IRDFA), his films have been screened at festivals worldwide and won awards.

His film Beloved was selected for

 * IDFA 2018- Mid Length Competition- Among Top 10 of Best Audience Award
 * -69th Berlin Film Festival - Culinary Cinema
 * -Best Audience Film in Hot Doc 2019
 * -Best NETPAC section in Ulju Mountain Film Festival-Korea
 * -Best documentary in 21th Iran Cinema Celebration
 * -Nominees for Best documentary Award of Shanghai TV Festival -June 2019
 * -Special Jury Mention in 67th Trento F.F - Italy
 * -Best documentary F.F - Kazan film Festival 2019
 * -Nominees for Best Documentary Film -Big Sky Film Festival, Competition section
 * -25th Istanbul Film Festival Competition section
 * -TRT Festival - Turkey - 2019
 * - Mammoth Lakes Film Festival- USA
 * - Le voci dell'inchiesta F.F – Italy-April 2019
 * -Sole Luna Doc Film Festival-Italy-July 2019
 * -Human rights- Docudays f.f Ukraine- 2019
 * -Moscow International Documentary film Festival
 * -Competition section of Golden Apricot F.F - Armenia
 * -KRANJSKA GORA Int F.F – Competition-Slovenia - July 201
 * -Parnu International Documentary Film Festival-Estonia –June2019
 * -EBS Documentary Film Festival – Korea
 * -Iranian film festival in Prague
 * -Religion Today  - Italy -  Special Jury award: With the Eyes of Woman
 * -Symi Film Festival - Best Cinematography-Greece
 * -Nuovi Mondi
 * -Mountain Film Festival - Italy- Torino- Best Movie Award
 * -4TH. Slemani IFF  Iraq - Special Jury Mention
 * -Sole Luna Doc Film Festival - Italy – Treviso -      best documentary awarded by the School jury of Treviso
 * -Ulju Mountain Film Festival - South Korea - Fipresci Award
 * And in the competition section of the festivals:
 * -Edmonton Film Festival - Canada
 * -FIDBA - Buenos Aires - Argentina
 * -Rural Encounters on Environment and Films - Labanon
 * -Apricot Tree Ujan International Documentary Film Festival. - Armenia ===
 * -Apricot Tree Ujan International Documentary Film Festival. - Armenia ===

Filmography

 * 2002 Forgotten Positives, 2003 The Isolated, 2008 Blessing, 2010 A Covenant between Us • A Nightmare We Committed to Ourselves 2012, Potable Water 2013, The Stoppage Dam • No one cares about jungles 2015, Wind and Leaf • Sky Isn’t Empty • The Heart 2017, The Iron Dream, 2018 Beloved.

Autobiography
I was born in a happy six-person family. My father is a tailor and my mother is housekeeper. Although no one was interested in arts in our family and relatives, I was interested in painting and I was fond of nature. As my grandmother, dear Leyli, I studied science course at high school, because she liked me to be a doctor. But after receiving my diploma, I realized that I follow my interest not other’s! I was waiting impatiently each year for summer holidays to leave the city for village and enjoy looking around! While I grew older, I faced an abstract world without any fantasy! I made a decision those days; a resolution which opened new window for me! Influenced by my childish zeal and in order to revive all those enthusiasm, I chose “cinema”! Indeed, I was fond of drama when I was just a little boy, and being an actor was inside me. Sometimes, I played the role of a bus driver, who drove us to the village, or my grandfather who was a great rancher in heart of jungles of Mazandaran, or the baker across our street! I painted many of my moments. I learned painting from my uncle, Ali, who was four years elder than me; he was deaf! First, I played a comic drama with my classmates when I was just 11 years old! After high school, I turned to cinema for my enthusiasm! Once I started the course, nostalgia embedded me and incidents around me passed like frames of a movie in front of me. I committed many trials and errors because of my strong zeal for learning. I have never been an assistant in any film nor stood behind the scenes of any film. I learned cinema through watching movies and reviewing the past memories and the daily lives of people, not at institutes, workshops or university. However, my grandmother still calls me “Doctor”, because she liked me to be a doctor!