
Born in 1973 in Tehran (Iran), Mehdi Naderi started his career 1988 with directing theater. Meanwhile he has not only directed several documentaries and fiction films but is also very engaged as a producer, scriptwriter, advisor and editor.
2007 he participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus.
In early 2010, he finished his first long-feature "Farewell Baghdad" that received positive reviews by national and international critics and was elected Iran's Official Submission to the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).