Hamed Soleimanzadeh
Film Critic, Iran
Hamed Soleimanzadeh is an Iranian film critic, film philosopher, filmmaker,
and lecturer at the University of Göttingen in Germany and the DAM Academy
in Rome, Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in Art Research with a focus on Film Studies
at the Nazar Research Center (NRC) and a postdoctoral qualification in Film
and Philosophy from the University of the Arts in Berlin (UdK).
His career includes serving as a jury member at more than forty prestigious film
festivals and events worldwide, such as the Golden Globes Award, Cannes,
Berlinale, Karlovy Vary, Warsaw, Istanbul, ZagrebDox, Oberhausen, and
Gothenburg. He is also the founder and director of the Koker International Short
Film Festival and a programmer for the Cinehill (Motovun) Film Festival in
Croatia.
Soleimanzadeh has directed over seven short films and authored several books
and hundreds of articles on cinema, theater, philosophy, culture, media, and
more. He is a member of the International Federation of Film Critics
(FIPRESCI).