Mansour Forouzesh

Film | Photography | Artistic Research

Mansour Forouzesh is an Iranian-born, Hungary-based filmmaker, photographer, interdisciplinary artist, and researcher whose work explores how narrative shapes perception and meaning. Since 2005, he has worked across fiction, documentary, experimental cinema, photography, and installation. His films have screened at over 70 international festivals, including Fajr and Cork International Film Festivals. His documentary Lost Whispers in the Distance was named among the top ten Iranian documentaries of 2021, while When I Killed the Cat was produced with Mythberg Films and Bart Film.

His Mongolian-language short The Elephant’s Tango, exploring the boundaries between fiction and perceived reality, is in post-production.

Forouzesh is a doctoral researcher at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, investigating artistic narratology, metaphor, and meaning-making in visual storytelling. His ongoing artistic research project, [IN]VISIBLE MEANING, initiated in 2020, extends these inquiries into photography, video, and installation, examining visibility, absence, and subjective interpretation. In 2025, he curated The Ordinary Moment for the Budapest Photo Festival.

He has presented research internationally, taught filmmaking and visual storytelling in Iran, Hungary, and the UK, and served on international film festival juries. His book Man Before Camera and his Persian translation of Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul are forthcoming.