Ehsan Khoshbakht is a London-based film curator, writer and filmmaker. He co-directs the annual festival of film history, Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. An architect by training, he curates films around the world, including last year's retrospective of Iranian pre-revolutionary cinema at MoMA in New York and the upcoming retrospective of Locarno Film Festival 2024. Ehsan is also a filmmaker who have made documentaries for both big screen (Celluloid Underground, Filmfarsi) and for television (Duke Ellington in Isfahan). He writes extensively on jazz and is the author of numerous books on cinema, including, most recently, Asghar Farhadi: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2023).