Mehran Tamadon (Iran)

Mehran Tamadon is a Iranian architect and filmmaker. After graduating as an architect in Paris, Mehran chose to focus solely on directing documentary films. His first work, Behesht Zahra, Mothers of Martyrs debuted in 2004. His second production Bassidji (2010) was done as an attempt to dialogue with the defenders of the Iranian regime. He continued this approach with Iranian (2014), where he convinced supporters of the regime to live in cohabitation with him. His two new productions, My Worst Enemy and Where God Is Not, both presented at the Berlinale in 2023, deal with the violence of interrogation and detention in Iran.