Born in 1986 in Iran, from Kurdish region of Ilam, he studied acting at Haft Honar Cultural Institute of Karaj. He has performed in more than 33 prestigious plays so far and has performed in 16 features, among which are Mohammad Shirvani’s banned “Fat Shaker” (Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival/2014), Reza Dormishian‘s “I’m Not Angry!” (Berlinale/Panorama 2014 and the Best Actor Award of the Year at the Annual Award Ceremony of Iranian Society of Film Critics & Writers), a leading role in Ida Panahandeh’s Nahid (winner of the Promising Future Prize, Un Certain Regard of Cannes 2015) and in 2017 in Vahid Jalilvand’s “No Date, No Signature” for which he received the Best Actor award in the Orizzonti Competition of Venice 2017 and Best Actor Award, Tehran’s Fajr Film Festival 2017. He was in the Competition of Orizzonti Venice 2019 with Saeed Roustayi’s “Just 6.5”. 

Born in 1991 in Faridan County in Isfahan Province of Iran, Diana Habibi is a Georgian-Iranian new actress who graduated from Arak University in Psychology. She attended Vahid Jalilvand’s training courses in acting and rhetorical skills. She has performed in two plays. “Beyond the Wall” is her first feature film.

Born in 1975, he is an actor, writer, painter and photographer. Amir Aghaee is a well-known artist in the Iranian cinema who started his career as a pro- fessional actor in 1995. He began his work in cinema with “Low Heights” of Ebrahim Hatamikia in 2002 and has played in more than 26 features and 10 TV series and plays. He played one of his most prominent roles in “Death Is My Profession” by Amir Hossein Saghafi that was awarded in Busan Film Festival in 2011. Among his selected works are “Niloofar” (2008), “The Sec- ond Wife” (2008), “Saadat Abad” (Best Actor, Film Critics Society, Iran, 2010), “Private Life” (2011), “Hush, Girls do not Scream!” (2013), the leading role in Vahid Jalilvand’s “Wednesday, May 9” (Winner of Fipresci Prize and Win- ner of the INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue, Orizzonti Competition of Venice 2015) and again in Vahid Jalilvand’s “No Date, No Sig- nature” (Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor awards in the Orizzonti Competition of Venice 2017 and many other festivals). He received the Crys- tal Symorgh for the Best Supporting Actor in “Butterfly Swimming” in Fajr Film Festival, Iran, 2020. “Beyond the Wall” is his third collaboration with Vahid Jalilvand.