Azadeh Moussavi was born in the restless spring of Tehran in 1980, right after the war broke out in Iran. When she was only one year old, she witnessed the arrest of her father, the editor of one of the liberal newspapers that were active after the Islamic Revolution in iran.

Her life underwent enormous changes after her father being arrested and during the years of war, and these very changes attracted her to documentary narratives of society and also to social cinema.