[1] Born and raised in Tehran, he moved to Canada at age 18, and studied film at Simon Fraser University and the Canadian Film Centre.
[1] He made the short films Feel Like Chicken Tonight (1998) and The Miracle (1999) prior to the premiere of Khaled at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.
[2] Khaled won the Best Director Award for at the 37th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,[3] the First Time Filmmaker Award at the ReelWorld Film Festival,[1] received an honorable mention for the FIPRESCI International Critics Award, [4] and was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2001.
[5] In 2005 he released the short film Rose,[6] and an episode of the television series Robson Arms.
[7] In 2020 he was a participant in Greetings from Isolation, a project featuring short films by 45 Canadian directors about the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.