Arash T. Riahi

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Arash T. Riahi (2017)

Arash T. Riahi (born August 22, 1972 in Iran ) is an Austrian film director of Iranian origin.

Live and act

Arash Riahi came to Austria around 1983/84 when his parents fled with his brother Arman T. Riahi from Iran. Since his father was persecuted as a left-wing intellectual opponent of the Shah , Riahi stopped going to school in Iran for the last few years - instead he often went to the movies with his father. “Perhaps that's where my great enthusiasm for film stems from.” He made his first attempts at short films while still at school. In 1993 he completed the Matura at the Realgymnasium Schottenbastei in Vienna and then studied film and humanities . From 1995 to 2002 he worked as a freelancer for ORF and concentrated on documentaries, music videos and commercials. As a video artist and experimental filmmaker, as he worked for the show kunst-pieces at this time , he called himself ARASH .

In 1998 he founded the film and media production company " Golden Girls Filmproduktion " together with Geza Horvat, Kristian Davidek and Raphael Barth . In addition to short films, commercials and music videos, numerous television documentaries and three feature documentaries have been made to date. Including Exile Family Movie , in which Riahi portrays his large, politically and geographically widely dispersed family. Arash T. Riahi's feature film debut A Moment of Freedom was awarded the Vienna Film Prize in 2008, among others .

Filmography

  • 1992 The Boy and the Strange Reality, short film, 9 min.
  • 1995 Bits and Pieces, experimental film, 4.5 min.
  • 1999 Reformel, experimental film, 11 min.
  • 1999 Eclipsa-Nam ce face - Shall the world end after all, feature documentary, 74 min.
  • 2001 The Impossibility, short film, 9 min.
  • 2004 The Souvenirs of Mr. X, feature documentary, 98 min.
  • 2005 Mississippi, experimental film, 6 min.
  • 2006 Exile Family Movie , feature documentary, 94 min.
  • 2008 A moment of freedom
  • 2013 Everyday Rebellion , feature documentary, with Arman T. Riahi , 110 min.
  • 2015 One of Us (Production)
  • 2016 The Hermits (Production)
  • 2017 The Migrants (Production)
  • 2018 Cops (Production)
  • 2020 We'll stay a little longer (direction, screenplay)

Awards

Mississippi :

  • Visual Pleasure Award / Animateka Festival / Ljubljana 2005
  • Award for best script / Idea at the Fantoche Film Festival / Switzerland 2005
  • Best Experimental Film Melbourne Film Festival 2006
  • Most Surprising Film Odense Film Festival 2006
  • Main prize experimental film festival Videoex 2006 / Switzerland
  • Main prize 16th International Video Festival Bochum 2006
  • Golden Dove for best animation film at the Leipzig Film Festival 2005

Exile Family Movie :

  • Golden Dove for the best documentary film at the Leipzig Film Festival 2006
  • FIPRESCI Prize of the International Association of Film Critics, Leipzig Film Festival 2006
  • Grand Diagonale Award for Best Documentary 2006
  • 2nd best midlength documentary Ecofilms Filmfestival Rhodes 2006
  • Silver Hugo for best documentary Chicago Film Festival 2006
  • Max Ophüls Prize 2007 (Documentary Film Prize)
  • Interfilm Prize of the Max Ophüls Festival 2007

A moment of freedom :

further awards:

  • Prize for innovative cinema Diagonale 2001 for median work from the ECHO association for the documentation The Young People from Cardinal Nagl Platz
  • Golden Venus for Best TV Commercial 2001 for the commercial U-Boot Meaning of Life
  • Silver Venus in the category best Austrian cinema advertising 2002 for the Alphaville Videostore commercial
  • Silver Plaque Award for Best Documentary at the 2004 Chicago Film Festival for The Souvenirs of Mr. X.
  • NDR Director's Award , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival 2009, donated by Norddeutscher Rundfunk
  • Diagonale 2016 - Audience Award for Children (together with Arman T. Riahi )

Web links

Commons : Arash T. Riahi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ derStandard.at: Film director Arman T. Riahi: "We are the Quotentschuschen" . Article dated August 5, 2018, accessed August 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ Peter Angerer: "The Migrants": Fatal role-playing games with strangers . In: "Tiroler Tageszeitung", June 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Andrea Schurian: Between times of flight. Der Standard , 7 January 2009, p. 27
personal data
SURNAME Riahi, Arash T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riahi, Arash
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Iran