Babak Jalali was born in Northern Iran and raised in London. His debut feature film, Frontier Blues, premiered in the Official Competition at the 2009 Locarno International Film Festival and went on to receive the Fipresci Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. His second feature, Radio Dreams, won the Tiger Award at the 2016 Rotterdam IFF. His third feature, Land, was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2018. Fremont premiered at Sundance 2023.