Aydin Alinejad

Aydin Alinejad was born and raised in Tehran.
He studied theater studies and worked as an assistant director and dramaturge at the Zurich theater collective “Mass und Fieber”. For his screenplay “Nabila” (2014) he received the prize for best screenplay at the “Lyon International Film Festival”. Together with Narges Kalhor, he wrote the screenplays for the film “Gis”, “In the name of Scheherazade or the first beer garden in Tehran”, “SuperEnki from Osterwald” and “Shahid”.