BIO
MAHDI AHMADI
Mahdi Ahmadi grew up in the south of Iran. During his bachelor’s studies at Shiraz University, he founded a student magazine, Setak, with a group of students and became a journalist interested in covering daily politics in Iran in a nonfiction form. He left Iran after the unrest in 2009. That experience shaped his direction to study the structure of narrative and the relationship between the real world and the narrative world.
He started master classes in writing in 2020 and published short stories. The topics he is interested in are mainly about fear and death and the absurdity of the real world in contrast with the human perception of it and how it plays a role in conflicts and wars. As he continued writing, he became more drawn to the visual possibilities of film and how moving images can express the same tensions he was exploring in prose.
He made his first narrative short film, Hit and Run, in 2023, where a man is living with an invisible bird after he loses his wife in a hit-and-run accident. Later, an invisible cat eats the bird, and he goes out seeking justice from the cat. The film reflects his interest in blending the absurd with the emotional weight of loss and perception.He continues to explore the space between reality and imagination in both his writing and filmmaking
