Broken Whispers

With 18 years of working in the cinema industry, Amir Athar Soheili is a professional lecturer, writer, and director with deep knowledge and understanding of cinema. In addition to several movies broadcast on television, he has directed a number of creative films that have been honored at international film festivals. Amir Athar is currently a professor of film studies at Elmi-Karbordi University and the president of Simiya Film company.

Masoud Soheili is an Iranian filmmaker, writer, and photographer. With his film, Blue-Eyed Boy (2014) and Elephantbird (2019), he has won more than 40 awards from over 300 film festivals. He was a jury member of 9 film festivals, including the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2015, Avanca International Film Festival in Portugal 2016 and 2018, SAARC Film Festival Sri Lanka 2017, Dhaka International Youth Film Festival in Bangladesh (2020), Accra Indie Film Festival in Ghana (2022), Chaktomuk Short Film Festival in Cambodia (2022) and Azemeis Film Festival in Portugal (2022). Masoud is the co-founder and creative director of the Asia Peace Film Festival in Islamabad, Pakistan.