Mehdi Jafari () is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. In 2021, he won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Director at the 39th Fajr Film Festival.
Mehdi Jafari was born in 1969 in the city of Ahvaz . in his Youth he began his artistic career with theater acting . He obtained his B.A from the Arts Faculty at Tehran Art University in 1993 . after completing his education, he started participating in the making of fictional and documentary short films. after that he worked for ten years in the field of Advertisements.
since the year 2004, he has worked as a director of photography on around twenty Iranian films.
since 2016, he has begun making his own feature films.
The Presence of the Short Film A Little bit Higher in the Competition section of the Berlinale in 2006 is considered one of the honors of Iranian short Cinema.