Ayat Najafi

Born in Tehran in 1976 and currently living between Berlin and Iran, Ayat Najafi first studied scenography. In 1995, he set up a company for student theater at the University of Tehran, participating in several workshops led by some masters of Iranian theater. In 2005, he participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus with his short film Move It (2004). Lady Tehran, his second theatrical production in Germany with an international team, premiered in Berlin in 2009, followed by Pakistan [Does not] exist. In 2008, he made his first feature  documentary,  Football Under Cover.