Kaveh Daneshmand is a Prague-based Iranian writer, director, and producer. He is the artistic director of ÍRÁN:CI Film Festival that he founded in Prague in 2011. Daneshmand also teaches film directing at Prague Film School and Iranian Cinema at Charles University. His first short, Occasional Showers, received the Best Short Film Award in 2016 at the Writers and Critics’ Awards in Iran. His second short, Alula, premiered at the 65th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in 2019. Daneshmand’s debut feature, Endless Summer Syndrome, (2023) won the Karlovy Vary Works in Progress award in 2022, and had its world premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in the First Feature Competition.