Hossein Moradizadeh

Hossein Moradizadeh (born 1970 in Abadan) is an Iranian painter, photographer and filmmaker based in Tehran, working mainly in animation and experimental documentary. Since his first 16mm animation in 1990 he has made short films in 2D, oil-on-glass, stop-motion and computer animation, as well as a series of short documentaries shot in the Czech Republic and France between 2006 and 2009. At the Saba animation center he directed the stop-motion features The Holy Grail (2007), Aji Dahak (2008) and The Battle of Fereidoun (2008), which won the best feature animation award at the Tehran International Animation Festival in 2009. His later short animations include Gilgamesh (2022), produced by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults.

March 20, 1970