1. Soheil Beiraghi is an Iranian independent film director, screenwriter and producer.
18 Facts About Soheil Beiraghi
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Soheil Beiraghi has directed the award-winning films I, Cold Sweat and Popular.
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Soheil Beiraghi started out on his filmmaking career in 2005 as an assistant director in a number of cinematic productions.
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Soheil Beiraghi was born on October 16,1986, in Shahreza.
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Soheil Beiraghi got involved in cultural and artistic activities at the age of 12, writing short stories and texts on different subjects for magazines and newspapers.
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At the age of 18, inspired by one of his fictions, Soheil Beiraghi made his first short film.
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Soheil Beiraghi wrote and directed Pit acted by Andishe Fouladvand, Ammaar Tafti and Atefe Nouri.
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Soheil Beiraghi is among the few Iranian filmmakers who work independently of any institutions.
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Soheil Beiraghi has been labelled as a feminist film director by the followers of the antifeminist ideology, given that the protagonists of his films are mainly women and the plots include different aspects of women's lives.
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However, Soheil Beiraghi has stated that the trilogy took form all by itself, without any previous planning.
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Soheil Beiraghi made his first feature film I in 2016, when he was 28 years old.
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Soheil Beiraghi played the role of an astute fixer who solved problems for other people by breaking the law in a subtle way.
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Soheil Beiraghi made his second feature film, Cold Sweat in 2018.
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Two years later, in 2020, Soheil Beiraghi began shooting his third feature film Popular, a threequel to his two previous works I and Cold Sweat, all dealing with women's issues.
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Motamed-Arya's acting in the leading role and the way Soheil Beiraghi brings her as the lead character face to face with her lengthy loneliness and everyday problems attracted considerable interest from the critics after the screening of the film at the Fajr Film Festival.
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In 2018, Soheil Beiraghi sat on a jury in the competition section at the 29th Stockholm International Film Festival.
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Soheil Beiraghi asserted that thanks to Cold Sweat the Cinema of Iran rose to a high level of self-awareness and patience.
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Soheil Beiraghi expressed his discontent in an interview noting that he and his crew members were deprived from the only option left for them which was the public screening of the film.