Mohammad Farokhmanesh was born on November 26, 1971 in Shiraz, Iran. He gained his first film experience at a young age at the Iranian Youth Film Institute, where he made his first short films. From 1995 to 2001 he studied film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. In 2000 he founded the Hamburg production company brave new work with Frank Geiger and Armin Hofmann. In the following years he produced several feature films and documentaries.

Farokhmanesh made his feature film debut as a director with the documentary "Reich des Bösen - Fünf Leben im Iran" (2007), for which he had received the Gerd Ruge Scholarship together with Frank Geiger. After that he worked (together with Geiger) mainly as a producer again, for example for the award-winning feature film "45 Minuten bis Ramallah" (DE/FR 2013), for the spy comedy "Die Mamba" (AT/DE 2014) and for the animated film "Teheran Tabu" ("Tehran Taboo", DE/AT 2017) which premiered in Cannes. Together with Geiger he directed the documentary "Kleine Germanen" ("Little Germans", DE/AT 2018) about the difficult situation of children of right-wing extremist parents. "Kleine Germanen" opened in German cinemas in May 2019.