# Behrang Mortazavian

Iranian filmmaker and writer. Writer and co-director of the award-winning feature Method to My Madness (2024) and writer-director of Loser Heroes (2025).

## About

Behrang Mortazavian is an Iranian filmmaker and writer who breaks the boundary between reality and fiction by playing with cinematic conventions and blending genres. His work often unfolds through several equally central characters and explores deception, manipulation, failed relationships, and the fine line between horror and comedy.

He holds a degree in dramatic literature from the Art University of Tehran and brings his background in playwriting and screenwriting into the structure of his films. His two most recent films, Method to My Madness (2024), co-directed with Hoda Hamzehali, and Loser Heroes (2025), are experiments in hybrid genre and formal play. Influenced by Park Chan-wook, Paolo Sorrentino and Michael Haneke, he favors journeys of formal and narrative exploration over conclusive endings.

Method to My Madness has won awards at the Synergy Film Festival, the Feedback Female Film Festival and the Manhattanhenge Film Festival, and screened in competition at the Winter Film Festival in New York. Loser Heroes was selected for the Jaipur International Film Festival in 2026.

## Films

### [Method to My Madness](https://behrangmortazavian.pages.dev/method-to-my-madness/) (2024)

In a remote villa, Kamand joins a 24-hour film shoot, but two mysterious women blur reality and performance, pulling her into a hallucinatory game with no clear role and no way out.

Written by Behrang Mortazavian. Directed by Behrang Mortazavian and Hoda Hamzehali.

### [Loser Heroes](https://behrangmortazavian.pages.dev/loser-heroes/) (2025)

After a failed attempt to emigrate, Ellie and her friends retreat to a forbidden villa, only to be watched by a ghost, fractured by guilt, and pulled into multiple versions of reality where no ending can save them all.

Written and directed by Behrang Mortazavian.

Status: Completed. World premiere to be announced.

## Awards for Method to My Madness

- Best Foreign Feature Film, Synergy Film Festival (USA), 2025
- Best Feature Film, Audience Award, Feedback Female Film Festival (Canada and USA), 2025
- Best Foreign Film, Second Place, Manhattanhenge Film Festival (USA), 2025
- Best Director, Third Place, Manhattanhenge Film Festival (USA), 2025

## Press

- [Method to My Madness: Finding Authenticity Through Filmmaking](https://winterfilmfest.org/wff2026/wff26-interviews/interview-method-to-my-madness/): Winter Film Festival, New York, February 2026. An analytical article and interview with the filmmaker on identity, performance, censorship, memory, and underground cinema in Iran.

## Essays

- [Why Doesn’t Life Unfold Like the Movies?](https://behrangmortazavian.substack.com/p/1cf): On failure, unseen suffering, and the standards we borrow from cinema to measure our own lives.
- [It Was a Children’s Show, So Why Did I Feel Punished?](https://behrangmortazavian.substack.com/p/6bc): On “Kadoo Matbakh”, childhood fear, and a television that wanted to raise us.

## Contact

- Email: behrangmortazavi7 at gmail dot com
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/behrangmortazavian/)
- [Substack](https://behrangmortazavian.substack.com/)
- [IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17919960/)
- [Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/film/method-to-my-madness/)

Source: https://behrangmortazavian.pages.dev/