Rafi Pitts

Rafi Pitts (Persian: رفیع پیتز, born 1967) is an Iranian film director.

Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio.

He graduated in 1991 from the Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Photography.

In the 90's Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard.

Educated in France and England, Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema, which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit.