Arash T. Riahi is an Austrian director, producer, script-writer and dramatic consultant born 1972 in Iran.

Riahi moved to Austria as the child of political refugees in 1982. Studying Film and the Arts at the University of Vienna, he then worked as a freelancer in the youth and art department of Austrian TV.

In 1997, he co-founded the film and media production company Golden Girls Filmproduktion). His body of work as a director & producer, that won more than 100 international awards, comprises various awarded short and experimental films, documentaries, including “The Souvenirs of Mr. X”  “Exile Family Movie”  or the cross-media project “Everyday Rebellion” he co-directed with his brother in 2013. „Kinders“, another documentary by the Riahi Brothers was awarded with the special Jury Award at the Sarajevo Filmfestival 2017.

His first fiction film “For a moment freedom” has won 31 international awards and was the Austrian candidate for the Academy Awards 2010. 

Since 2010 Arash works as a script advisor for the MEDIA supported programms SOURCES 2, Nipkow, Berlinale Scriptstation, European Documentary Network, Jihlava Institut for Documentary, docIncubator, docElevator. Since 2014 he is teaching nonfictional storytelling and financing at the Filmschool and the Filmakademie Vienna.

His second fiction feature "Oskar & Lili-Where no one knows us” already won international awards, for example the audience award at the Max Ophüls Filmfestival, the Special Jury Award at the int. Migration FF and the Josef Vilsmaier-Award at Kitzbühel FF in 2020. The film was released in French cinemas March 2020 and had its Austrian premiere in October 2020.