Mini biography

Ehsan Khoshbakht (1981, Iran)

Ehsan Khoshbakht (born 1981, Iran) is a film curator, filmmaker, writer and architect. Architect by training, Ehsan writes books and essays on film.

Ehsan is the co-director of Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy. He has curated or co-curated programmes dedicated to film and jazz, Iranian pre-revolutionary cinema, John Stahl, Henry King, Frank Tuttle, Stuart Heisler and George Stevens in Bologna, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Ankara, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Basel and beyond.

His first feature-length documentary as a director, Filmfarsi, was made in 2019 and screened at many film festivals, including Rotterdam, Cambridge, Cairo, Athens, IndieLisboa. (See the trailer below.)

Ehsan's short documentary, Duke Ellington in Isfahan, which was made for BBC television in 2018, was selected for Telluride Film Festival 2021.

He formerly edited the arts quarterly Underline for the British Council. The past issues of the magazine can be accessed here.

Ehsan's latest book, Asghar Farhadi: Interviews is was published on January 2023 by the University Press of Mississippi. For other books authored, edited or prefaced by Ehsan, see below or visit this page.

Ehsan used to write for and maintain a blog on jazz, Take the "A" Train, between 2009 and 2021.

His podcasts in jazz (in Persian only) can be accessed on this website where you can find all the 25 episodes of jazz show Ehsan produced in 2011-12. (Notes on Cinematograph)

Director - Selected filmography

1. Celluloid Underground (documentary | 2023)
   
2. Duke Ellington in Isfahan (short documentary | 2021)
   
3. Filmfarsi (2019, Documentary)
   
4. A Journey Through Iranian Cinema (2013, Documentary, Short)