Habib Bavi Sajed

Habib Bavi Sajed was born on October 1, 1980, in Ahwaz, Iran. In 1994, at the age of 14, he started his artistic activity in theatre and in 1995, he entered the field of filmmaking. In 1996, at the age of 17, Mr. Bavi Sajed directed his first short film called "From Dream to Reality" and wrote his first film review in 1998. So far, he has written, produced, and directed more than twenty short films, documentaries, and two feature films.
 
In addition to filmmaking, Mr. Bavi Sajed has worked as a production manager on over 50 short films, documentaries, and television series.
Bavi Sajed made the documentary film "Qalamaranj" (about the prominent contemporary leftist writer - Ahmad Mahmoud) featuring influential Iranian leftist artists such as Mahmoud Dolatabadi, Dariush Mehrjoei, Simin Behbahani, Masoud Kimiyai, Manouchehr Atashi, Adnan Gharifi, Mohammad Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Ayubi, Yusuf Azizi Bani Turuf, Behzad Farahani, Mino Farshchi, Ibrahim Yunsi, Mohammad Baharlu, Mohammad Ali Sajjadi, Babak Atafa, Najaf Daryabandari, Ahmed Aghaei, and Masoud Minawi.
Sajed is a permanent member of the Iranian Cinema Documentary Directors Association, a European Documentary Network (EDN) member, and a graduate of Abbas Kiarostami's filmmaking course.
 
He received a bachelor's degree in documentary directing from the Ministry of Culture and Education and the Ministry of Science and Communication due to his long and successful film and artistic career.
In addition to cinema, he is active in film and literary criticism. He has published over a hundred articles, reviews, interviews, reports, and translations as well as four book titles.
One of the most important cinematic activities in the career of Habib Bavi Sajed is directing the first Arabic movie in the history of Iranian cinema.
Before this, in the 119-year history of Iranian cinema, there had never been an Arabic film related to Arabic geography, language, dialect, and theme.
In all his works, Bavi Sajed has had a concern and a specific attitude toward climate and ethnic anthropology. He has also tried to address the issues of environment and industrial pollution in several documentaries.
Sami, a feature film directed by Habib Bavi Sajed, won the best screenplay award at Russia's 16th Kazan International Film Festival.
It was also screened in the competitive section of the 16th Rome International Film Festival, the Omid Film Festival in Sweden, and the 10th Nadu International Film Festival in Maghrib.
In 2016, Habib Bavi Sajed participated in the jury of the 10th Oman International Film Festival documentary section.
==FILMOGRAPHY==
1. From Dream to Reality (short story film - writer and director) 1997
2- What is cinema? (Documentary - Plan and Director) 1998
3- Frayadgar (documentary - research and director) 1998
4- Hands (short story film - screenplay and director) 1999
5- Prisoner (half-length fiction film - writer and director) 2000
6- Khat Red (Peace) (short story film - writer, editor, and director) 2001
7- Amoyadgar (documentary - research, editing, and director) 2001
8- Night and May (Television semi-length feature film, producer, screenplay, and director) 2011
9- Arriving late to cry (documentary - research, editing, and director) 2003
10- Darbad (short story film - writer, editor, producer, and director) 2003
11- Tanideh (documentary research, editing, picture, producer, and director) 2013
12- An incident (story - director) 2013
13- Kalamaranj (about Ahmad Mahmoud) - (documentary researcher, project manager, producer, and director) 2001 - 2006
13. Adnan Gharifi- (documentary/research, selection, producer and director/filming in Iran and Holland) 2004-2022
14- Al Ramad - (documentary - research - producer, editing, and director) 2006
15- Hassan Bouadhar- (documentary - research and director) 2006
16- Roots in the Soil - (Television documentary collection - research, project manager, producer, and director - five episodes) 2015
17- Barfarazakhl - (documentary - written and directed) 2007
18- Jaan-e Haftom - (short story film - script, editing, and directing) 2008
19- A familiar voice (documentary - research and directing) 2008
20- Mother- (documentary, research, and director) 2009
21- Lalai Jang- (documentary, research, editing, and directing) 2001
22- Bidari Cinema - Documentary (Research, Image, Editing, and Director/ Cinematography France/United Arab Emirates/Tunisia, Iran- 2001
23- Arab cinema - documentary (research, image, editing, producer and director/photography in France, UAE, Tunisia, Qatar, Iran - 2013)
24- Rah - Documentary (research, picture, editing, producer, and director/ shooting Kazan/ Russia - 2014
25 - Ibn Battuta - documentary (research, picture, editing, producer, and director) / filming in Morocco / Morocco 2006
26 - Khaduj; Zandark Maghreb - documentary (research, producer, and director) / filming in Morocco / Morocco 2016
27 - Armenia travelogue - documentary (research, picture, editing, producer, and director) 2016
28 - Report of a flood - documentary (image, producer, and director) 2018
29 - Khakbaran - documentary (image, producer, and director) 1994-1999
30 - Ahvaz; Above and below the city - Documentary (writer and director) 2020
31 - Karuni - Documentary (writer and director) 2021
32 - Jangshahr - documentary (writer and director) 2021
==Feature Films==
1- Sami (screenwriter, screenwriter, stage designer, and director) 2020
==Books==
1- Assabah (collection of stories)
2- Ahmad Mahmoud (a collection of conversations with people of cinema and literature)
3- Adnan Ghorifi (long talk by Adnan Ghorifi)
4- Cinema of nothing (about independent cinema)
Participation in festivals and awards:
- Sami's film won the best screenplay award at the 16th Kazan International Film Festival / Russia
- Sami's movie in the competitive section of the 16th Rome International Film Festival 
- Sami's movie at the Omid Film Festival in Sweden
- Sami's movie at the 10th Nadu International Festival in Morocco
 
- The winner of the special prize of the jury of the 7th international documentary festival "Al-Khoribkeh" / Morocco for the documentary film Lullaby of War
- Winner of the second prize for the best documentary of the 12th festival (Lullaby of War documentary)
- The winner of the best documentary work of the independent section in the 4th TV Productions Festival (for the documentary Lullaby of War)
- Winner of the Best Documentary Director Award from Masoud Kimiyai Azad Workshop Independent Festival (War Lullaby Documentary)
- Participation in the documentary film competition section of the 26th Fajr International Film Festival (Al Ramad Documentary)
- Nominee for the best semi-length documentary in the 10th international festival of Kazan / Russia / (based on Bidari Cinema)
- Participation in the New Horizons section of the 28th Carthage/Tunisia International Film Festival (Ramad documentaries)
- The winner of the third best film award from the Ice Academy section and the 7th International Rushd Film Festival (Al-Ramad Documentary)
- The winner of the second-best film award from the 4th Varash National Film Festival (Al Ramad Documentary)
- The winner of the best documentary director award from the second Satayesh International Film Festival (Al Ramad Documentary)
- The winner of the best documentary film award from the 3rd Red Gold Film Festival (Al Ramad Documentary)
- The winner of the best documentary film in section A, chosen by the Iranian Cinema Documentary Association in the first Jam International Film Festival (Al Ramad Documentary)
- The winner of the best film for the human perspective on the complicated conditions of war from the 3rd Social Cinema Festival (for the short film Peace/ Red Line)
- The winner of the best film for a new look at war from the 5th Provincial Film and Photo Festival (for the short film Peace / Red Line)
- Appreciation for directing the successful atmosphere of the first regional film festival (for the short film Darbad)
- Participating in three courses from Tehran International Short Film Festival (Young Cinema)
- Participation in two rounds of the Isfahan International Short Film Festival
- Participation in three rounds of the social cinema festival
- Participating in the fifth festival of the picture of the year (Kalamaranj and Ramad documentary
- Participation in the first Book Film Festival (Kalamranj documentary)
- Participation in the competition section of the 7th Beirut International Documentary Film Festival.
- Participation in the 9th Bahrain International Film Festival (Al Ramad Documentary)
- Participation in the 5th Ancient Iran-America Film Festival (Al Ramad Documentary)
- Educational participation in the 6th Austrian Short Film Festival (Al Ramad Documentary)
- Participation in the second festival of artistic productions as a writer in the story section)
- A review of Habib Bavi Sajed's works in the second Sataish Film Festival
- Winner of Iran's first literary award (in the fiction section as a writer)
- Participating in the second literary festival of Nabat Branch (in the fiction section as a writer)
- Participating in the Flak Aflak Literary Festival (as a writer in the story section)
- The winner of the second story writing prize of the Desert Stars Festival
- Attending the 6th Dubai International Film Festival
- Participating in the 26th Tehran International Short Film Festival with the short film "Jaan-e Haftom."
- Participating in the seventh film festival of the year (short film Jaan-e Haftom)
- Participation in the cultural program of the National Radio of Spain with the documentary "Alramad."
- Participation in the 4th Abu Dhabi International Festival
- Winner of the best documentary film award from the 11th War Film Festival (Al Ramad)
- Participation in the fifth Abu Dhabi International Film Festival
- Attending the 65th Cannes International Film Festival in France
- Participation in the documentary competition section of the 7th Varash National Short Film Festival/ (with the documentary Lullaby of War)
- Participation in the competition section of the 8th Roish Film Festival/ (with the documentary Lullaby of War)
- Participating in the competition section of the 6th Truth Cinema Documentary Festival/ (with the Lullaby of War documentary)
- Attending the 6th Abu Dhabi International Film Festival
- Attending the 7th Abu Dhabi International Film Festival
- Participation in the competition section of the 43rd Rushd Film Festival
- Participation in the 10th Al Jazeera/Qatar International Documentary Festival (based on Bidari Cinema)
- Participation in the sixth documentary festival "Al-Khoribkeh" / Maghreb / ​​Morocco (based on Bidari Cinema)
- Participation in the first international festival of human rights / Tunisia (based on Bidari Cinema)
- Participation in the French video art festival with the fictional film "Jaan-e Haftom."
 
Executive and administrative activities:
- The director of the cinema department in a two-week review of contemporary Iranian art in Armenia
- Member of the jury of the screenwriting section of the Youth Cinema Association of the country
- Member of the jury of the student section of the first Ahvaz International Scientific Film Festival
- International consultant, and secretary of the Fajr International Film Festival in three periods
- Substitute for the production of the movie "Chale Chole" directed by Kianush Ayari
- Member of the jury of the short documentary section at the 10th Oman International Film Festival
- Holding a training workshop on cinema directing and film writing for Omani students
Category:1980 births
Category:People from Ahvaz
Category:Iranian people
Category:Filmmaking