FILMOGRAPHY

 

2019 Chronicle of a Winter,Tehran 1979

Full-length documentary- Unfinished due to creative disagreement problems

Selected for development at the following festivals: Cinephilia Bound Cannes, Cannes, France

Films Femmes Méditerranée, Marseille, France

 Sunny Side of the Doc, La Rochelle, France

 

2017 No Body

Short documentary

Finalist of the IF / Then fund of the Tribeca Film Institute on the East Doc platform, Prague, Czech 

Official selection: Huesca International Film Festival 2020, Huesca, Spain

Kortfilm, Norwegian Short Film Festival 2020, Oslo, Norway

Tallinn Black Film Festival | PÖFF 2020, Tallin, Estonia

 

2012 I am undocumented

Interactive documentary, Tehran, Iran

 

2011 You, me, nuclear energy, economic sanctions and everything else

Short documentary

Official selection: London Iranian Film Festival, special screening at the 6th National Sculpture Biennale in Tehran, Iran

 

2009 A Monologue for Freedom

Short documentary

Official selection of the Dresden International Short Film Festival 2010

 

EXHIBITION

 

2024 "Our Time", a group exhibition organised by the Yerevan Institute of Contemporary Art and ArtNexus, a programme run by the Swedish Art Grants Committee (SAGC), Yerevan, Armenia 

 

RESIDENCIES AND PRIZES

 

2021 Writing residency at the Fabbrica Culturale Casell'arte, Corsica, France

2019 De l'écriture à l'image, Documentary writing residency in Saint Quirin, France

 

2020 CNC Prize, Neighbours Platform of Meetings on the Bridge Istanbul International Film Festival

 

TRAINING IN FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY

 

2023 Historical and alternative processes in 19th century photography

Led by Arpan Mukherjee at STUDIO GOPPO, Santiniketan, India

2017 Aristoteles documentary filmmaking workshop

5-week workshop led by Thierry Garrel and John Appel, Timișoara, Romania

2014 Documentary filmmaking workshop

6-month course, led by Mehrdad Oskuie, Karnameh Institute of Arts and Culture, Tehran, Iran

2014 How to make social awareness documentaries?

Led by Manuela Maiguashca, hosted by Documentary voices, Dubai

2012 Screenwriting workshop

Led by Arno Krimmer, hosted by Österreichisches Kulturforum, Tehran, Iran

2011 Documentary production workshop

Organised by the 13th World Culture Festival, London, United Kingdom

2010 Documentary development from idea to script

Workshop run by the Documentary Filmmakers Association of Iran

2007 Screenwriting course

Led by Farhad Tohidi, Hilaj Film Institute, Tehran, Iran

2005 Photography course

New York Institute of Photography (NYIP)

2004 analog photography course

Iran Photographers House, Tehran, Iran