Anisa Sabiri is a London-based writer/director from Tajikistan.

For several years she worked as a tour guide in the Pamir mountains while building a profile as a poetess, PEN congress speaker, cultural activist and photographer before making her first films 'The Crying of Tanbur' (2018) and 'Rhythms of Lost Time' (2021) that have been screened at 60 international film festivals and institutions including the A-list Busan IFF, Asian Film Archive (Singapore), Musée des Confluences (France), Documenta Fifteen (Germany), Bozar (Belgium), and WOMEX (Portugal).

In 2019 Anisa won a UK government-funded CHEVENING scholarship to undertake MA in Screenwriting at the London Film School, from which she graduated with the Outstanding Screenwriter Award for her diploma screenplay 'Tightrope' in 2019.

Her current works in development include 'The Burning Bush' (funded by Doc Society), 'Generation' (selected for goEast Talent Lab and Berlin International Film Festival's EFM Doc Toolbox) and feature films 'Lola' and 'Tightrope'. Anisa has also contributed to the anti-war documentary 'Twenty Four', with Agnieszka Holland, Maryna Er Gorbach, Sergei Loznitsa and Christian Petzold.

She is a member of Directors UK and BFI Shorts Connect Network.