Mortaza Behboudi (Persian/Dari: مرتضی بهبودی; born April 22, 1994) is a Franco-Afghan war reporter and documentary filmmaker.

[2] Mortaza Behboudi is Bayeux Calvados-Normandy War Correspondents Prize and Prix Varenne winner in the year 2022.

Behboudi joined a carpet factory when he was twelve, where he worked at night whilst attending school during the day.

[8][9] In 2012, Behboudi came back to Afghanistan to earn his bachelor’s degree in Law and Political Science at Kabul University.

In 2022, Behboudi won the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy War Correspondents Prize in the section of Television Trophy for his report that was done with France 2 called "Les petites filles afghanes vendues pour survivre".

[28][29] Together with the French journalist Rachida El Azzouzi, he also won the 3rd Prize at Bayeux Calvados-Normandy War Correspondents Awards in the Written Press category, as well as the Varenne Prize in the category of the National Daily Press for their series of reports "A travers l'Afghanistan, sous les Talibans”.

[30][31] Behboudi is the co-director together with Rachida El Azzouzi of the documentary "They will not erase us, the fight of the Afghan women", which was produced in 2022 and broadcast on Mediapart and Arte.