Rafi Pitts spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived, in a basement flat, underneath a Post-Production Studio. With The Cuckoo (1975), Pitts started his career as a child actor in a neo-realist film by Varuzh Karim-Masihi. In 1981, during the War between Iran and Iraq, Pitts fled the country and moved to Britain. He graduated in 1991 from Harrow College - Polytechnic of Central London, with a BA(Hons) Degree in Film and Photography. His first short film, In Exile (1991), was presented at the London International Film Festival, in the same yea ...