Mansour Jahani graduated from Media University, affiliated with the IRNA, in journalism (art
and culture). Receiving his second major in Film Studies at The National Film School in
2018, Jahani had the privilege of studying cinema with world-known film scholars such as
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Professor Jean-Michel Frodon, Anges Devictor, Jacques Kermabon,
Marion Zilo, Angel Quintana. He also completed the “Cinema Directing” courses in 2019 at
the Jozani Free Cinema Workshops under the supervision of Maestro Masoud Jafari Jozani.

Mansour Jahani is an active member of various organizations such as The International
Federation of Journalists (IFI) in Belgium (for 22 years), Core member of Association Iranian
of Journalists (for 24 years), Iranian Society of Film Critics and Writers in House of Cinema
(for 10 years), Sport Reporters and Photographers (ISJA) in Iran (for 22 years), The
International Sport Journalists (AIPS) in Switzerland (for 20 years), Writers and Critics
Association in Iran and Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq (for 20 years), House of Music
Association in Iran (for 15 years), Iran Theatre Critics and Journalists Association in House
of Theatre (for 2 years), Iranian Designers & Cinema Advertising Managers Society (for 9
years). Jahani has also received an award in journalism from the Goteborg Art Association.

Jahani, in 2023 and 2024, he participated as a judge in the voting of the American magazine
IndieWire at the Cannes Film Festival and selected the best films. In 2023 and 2024.

In these years, Mansour Jahani as a journalist specializing in independent cinema has
cooperated with great Iranian filmmakers and supported them in the media. From the late
and great Abbas Kiarostami to Asghar Farhadi, Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof, Bahman
Ghobadi, etc.

Being able to communicate in English, Persian, Arabic and Kurdish, Mansour Jahani has
published cinema news in various news agencies and media such as AFP, AP, Reuters,
Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Screen Daily, Deadline, IndieWire, Le Figaro, BBC, France 24 TV,
Le Monde, Libération, The Guardian, Fabuk Magazine, Le film français, Spiegel, Euro News,
France Info, LaPresse, CNN, Fox News, ABC News, DW, ANSA, EFE, The Washington Post,
The New York Times, Annahar, etc.

Mansour, as an independent journalist and reporter, has covered international Film Festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, San Sebastian,, Thessaloniki, London, Karlovy Vary, Tallinn, Locarno, Busan, Tokyo, Toronto, IDFA, etc.