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Mansour Forouzesh is a filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator who has been working in documentary and fiction cinema since 2005. He holds an MA in Film Studies from Eötvös Loránd University and a doctorate in art research from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He has taught at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and dBs Institute of Music in the UK, and has led numerous documentary and fiction filmmaking workshops in Iran, Hungary, the UK and Romania.

His feature-length documentary, Whispers Lost in the Distance, has been screened at major festivals including the Fajr Film Festival and the Cinéma Vérité International Documentary Film Festival. His short fiction films, among them When I Killed the Cat, A Few Knots Away and The Hose, have been selected for more than seventy national and international festivals, from the Tehran International Short Film Festival to the Cork International Film Festival in Ireland, the Religion Today Film Festival in Italy, the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh and the Hong Kong film festival.

Alongside his filmmaking, Forouzesh is the author of Man Before Camera, a book on non-professional actors in cinema. In the visual arts, he is developing the artistic research project [IN]VISIBLE MEANING, which uses photography and installation to explore the relationship between narrative, perception and meaning. His work has been exhibited in Iran, Hungary, the UK, Spain and elsewhere.