Hayedeh Safiyari

Hayedeh Safiyari
Safiyari in 2012
Born (1959-06-27) 27 June 1959 (age 66)
Gorgan, Golestan province, Iran
Occupation
  • Film editor
Years active1981–present
Notable work
SpouseMohsen Abdolvahab (former)
ChildrenSepideh Abdolvahab

Hayedeh Safiyari (Persian: هایده صفی‌یاری, pronunciationⓘ ; born 27 June 1959 in Gorgan) is an Iranian film editor. In her more than forty years of work, she has collaborated on over 90 feature films and documentaries. She has received four Iranian film awards (Crystal Simorgh Awards) for her work, among other honors and was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[1] She is considered one of the most renowned film editors in Iran.[2]

Career

Hayedeh Safiyari graduated in Art Cinema from a University in Iran and decided to pursue her professional career in movie editing.[3] She remembers to have discovered her passion for editing when she edited films by other students as part of her thesis. After graduating, she first worked for the Iranian state television, then as a sound editor on one feature film and subsequently on five more.

She became an assistant editor to film director Bahram Beyzai, who edited his own films as well as selected projects for other film directors. While working with him, she received further offers that enabled her to break into the Iranian film industry, Safiyari said in an interview with Filmmaker Magazine.[4]

The majority of the edits she has carried out are for internationally well-acclaimed filmmakers such as Asghar Farhadi, Bahram Beyzai, Bahman Ghobadi, Rakhshan Banietemad, Reza Dormishian, and Pooran Derakhshande. She is best known for her long-time collaborations with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, including the Oscar-winning A Separation and The Salesman.

Hayedeh Safiyari has received several prestigious awards. Among them are the Crystal Simorgh, the Statue of the Cinema House, the Asian Film Award, the Jury Prize of Iran's film Critics & Writers Association. Two of her films, The Salesman (2016) and A Separation (2011), both directed by Asghar Farhadi, have been awarded with an Academy Award in the category as the Best foreign-language Film. She extended her professional work to many countries, including USA, France, Spain, Italy, Sweaden, and Turkey.

Safiyari has edited over 90 feature fiction films and several documentaries over a span of forty years. Many of these films have been selected by major international film festivals, e. g. among others the Cannes Film Festival, BFI, Berlin International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Golden Globe Awards, and the Locarno Film Festival.

In 2023 she was awarded Best Editing in the 6th Asian Film Awards for A Separation.[5]

Work

Hayedeh Safiyari has been working as a film editor since 1981. She works exclusively on arthouse films and is considered one of the most renowned film editors in Iran.[2] From 2021 to 2022, she was invited to be a member of the jury at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.[6]

She is best known for her long-standing collaboration with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, including the Oscar-winning films A Separation and The Salesman.

In the interview book “Asghar Farhadi. Interviews”, Farhadi repeatedly comments on his long-standing collaboration with Hayedeh Safiyari. On average, they developed the rhythm of each film together, which he considers one of the essential elements of his work. Many details of earlier stages of work, from the script to the actual on-set filming, would only be harmonized “... while editing, so the final rhythm passes through the filter of editing.”[7]

Private Life

Hayedeh Safiyari is married to the Iranian screenwriter and film director Mohsen Abdolvahab. Their daughter, Sepideh Abdolvahab, born in 1984, has also been working as a film editor since 2006.[8] She began her career in 2002 as her mother's assistant editor on Bahman Ghobadi's film drama A Separation. She subsequently worked with her on other films.[2]

Filmography (Selection)

Awards

Further reading

  • Ehsan Khoshbakht, Drew Todd (ed.): Asghar Farhadi. Interviews (= Conversations with Filmmakers). University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2023, ISBN 9781496841070.

References

  1. ^ "لیلا حاتمی و گلشیفته فراهانی عضو آکادمی اسکار شدند" [Leila Hatami and Golshifteh Farahani became members of Oscar Academy]. BBC News Persian (in Persian).
  2. ^ a b c Moosavi, Ali (2023-05-22). "Interdependent Elements: An Interview with Iranian Film Editor Haideh Safiyari". FilmInt.nu. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  3. ^ "Hayedeh Safiyari هايده صفی ياری". irmdb.sourehcinema.com – Iranian Movie DataBase هايده صفي ياري :. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  4. ^ ""The Turning Points of the Story are Painful and Challenging Moments": Editor Hayedeh Safiyari on "In The Land of Brothers"". filmmakermagazine.com. 2024-01-22. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  5. ^ "6th – Asian Film Awards Academy". afa-academy.com. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  6. ^ MMS/YAW (2022-11-07). "Tallinn Black Nights festival jury picks film editor Hayedeh Safiyari". tehrantimes.com. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  7. ^ Liebman, Stuart (2023). "Review of Asghar Farhadi: Interviews". Cinéaste. 48 (4): 72–73. ISSN 0009-7004.
  8. ^ "Safiyari, Hayedeh – Edited By". womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  9. ^ "Hayedeh Safiyari, Soren B. Ebbe win Best Editors Award at 2025 Tribeca". Cinema Without Borders. 2025-07-07. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
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