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Director, critic, lecturer
Country of origin
Iran/Schweiz

Majid Movasseghi (*1977) studied at the Drama Department of the Art & Architecture Institute in Tehran and worked both as a theater director and assistant of directors in Iranian cinema and television. From 2003-2009 he studied film direction at the VGIK (All-Russian State Film Academy, Moscow) under the guidance of Vadim Abdrashitov. His short and documentary films have been selected by a number of local and international film festivals. Majid Movasseghi has been teaching from 2009-2014 various courses about directing and acting at various universities and held also many workshops on cinema and theater in Iran and abroad. His film reviews have been published in many magazines and dailies. Recently he moved to Zurich.

Current issues

Church Media Foundation's "Look at Me..." Award 2025
"Defiant" by director Visa Koiso-Kanttila wins the Prize of the Church Media Foundation in Finland at the International Chidren's and Youth Festival in Oulu 2025.
Hof Film Festival 2025
The Hof Film Festival is now in its 58th year and has become a hallmark of the city, which is why Hof likes to call itself the “Home of Films,” a phrase that is said to have originated with Wim Wenders. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Munich film scene came to Hof (...). As a nostalgic reminder, this year there was a 35mm screening of Fassbinder's early work “Gods of the Plague”. Peter Paul Huth reports about the festival.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
Ecumenical Reception at the Berlinale
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11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2
Get Together - Meeting with the 8th Interreligious Jury at DOK Leipzig 2023
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