Ali Abbasi

Ali Abbasi Persian علی عباسی born 1981 is an IranianSwedishDanish filmmaker He is known for his films Shelley 2016 Border 2018 Holy Spider 2022 and The Apprentice 2024 Abbasi also directed the last two episodes of the first season of the series The Last of Us He has received various accolades including an Un Certain Regard award four Robert Awards and a German Film Award nominations for seven European Film Awards a Goya Award and two Guldbagge Awards Abbasi attended Tehran Polytechnic until 2002 when he emigrated to Sweden to study architecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm After earning his bachelor of arts in 2007 he enrolled at the National Film School of Denmark earning a degree in 2011 with the short film M for Markus