Faraz Fesharaki

فراز فشارکی

as DoP:

Boomerang 

Shahab Fotouhi //84`
world premiere @ Venice Film Festival Giornate Degli Autori 2024

ARTHUR & DIANA 

Sara Summa //108`
world premiere @ Toronto International Film Festival TIFF Discovery 2023

NATUREZA HUMANA HUMAN NATURE

Monica Lima//25`
world premiere @ International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR 2023, Tiger Competition, Ammodo Tiger Short Award

RAS VKHEDAVT, RODESAC CAS VUKUREBT? 

WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?  

Alexandre Koberidze//150´

world premiere @ Berlinale competition 2021, International Critics’ FIPRESCI Award

screenings (selection): 

NYFF (New York Film Festival)

BFI (London Film Festival)

KVIFF (Karlovy Vary)

Viennale

THEORIE UND PRAXIS THEORY AND PRAXIS

Leonie Minor//7min//StopMotion

world premiere @ The Hof International Film Festival 2021

screenings (selection):

Ann Arbor Film Festival

Palm Springs International ShortFest

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (online Wettbewerb)

STADTPINGUIN CITY PENGUIN

Florinda Frisadi//10min

world premiere @ Palm Springs International ShortFest 2021

MOUTHFUL

Shirin Sabahi//36min//documentary

world premiere @ Edith-Russ-Hau solo exhibition 2018

In Postproduction:

SEHNSUCHT IN SANGERHAUSEN 

Julian Radlmaier

DER GRANND CANYON

Simona Kostova

as director:

WAS HAST DU GESTERN GETRÄUMT, PARAJANOV? // 80min

WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV?

world premiere @ Berlinale Forum 2024

IT’S A CRIMAL WASTE TO GIVE THIS FILM A POSTPRODUCTION // 20min

world premiere @ KFFK (Short Film Festival Cologne)

Awards and nominations:

Seville European Film Festival 2021 // Best Cinematography Award


Listed by The Film Stage // The Best Cinematography of 2021


German Film Critics Award 2022 // Nominee Best Cinematography


Berlinale Documentary Award 2024 // Nominee Best Documentary

Faraz Fesharaki was born in 1986 in Esfahan, Iran.

He received his bachelor’s degree in film and his master’s degree in dramatic literature from Tehran University of Art. From 2009 to 2011, he attended Abbas Kiarostami’s workshop. In 2012, he moved to Berlin to study cinematography at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb), graduating in 2020.

He now lives in both Berlin and Tehran.