Early life
He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing.Career
'' Life and a Day'' is his first major cinematic work. At the Fajr International Film Festival, Roustayi won 2 Crystal Simorghs for best directing and best screenplay. He received the 2016 Reflet d'Or for Best Feature at the Geneva International Film Festival Tous Ecrans.2023 imprisonment
His third feature film '' Leila's Brothers'' competed in the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize for films screened in the main competition section. In August 2023, the Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced Roustayi to six months in prison for entering ''Leila's Brothers'' in the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, claiming that the film participated in "the opposition’s propaganda against the Islamic system". Roustayi alleged that Iran's Ministry of Culture had requested a series of scene changes to ''Leila's Brothers'' which he had refused to implement. Roustayi is due to serve nine days of his sentence and a suspended period of five years, as well as participating in other punitive measures such as completing a course on "creating movies aligned with national interests and national morality".Filmography
Feature films
Other credits
Awards and nominations
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* * Soore University alumni Iranian film directors Iranian screenwriters Living people 1989 births Crystal Simorgh for Best Director winners Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay winners {{Iran-film-director-stub