Feruza Ruzieva is a director, actress, screenwriter, and producer. She was born in 1983 in the small city of Navoi, Bukhara region, Uzbekistan (USSR). Her mother is Iranian, and her father is Uzbek; she grew up in the Soviet era, in an international environment with Bukharian Jews, Tatars, Russians, and Koreans. Her native language is Russian. Currently, she resides in Madrid. Her favorite aspect of directing is observation, and she prefers the acting technique of Nikolai Vasilievich Demidov. Directing has always been a part of her life, even though she didn't realize it could become her profession. For her, cinema is a way to process experience and observations into a narrative, a way to communicate.

As a director, actress, and co-author of theatrical and film projects, she became the first laureate of the State Prize named after Uzbek poetess Zulfiya in Uzbekistan (2000). Her nomination was put forward by the Municipality of the city of Navoi. Navoi is a small city without theaters, theatrical universities, or schools.

During the first 17 years of her life, she lived in a city without theaters, where films were censored due to cultural and societal norms. Her curiosity led her to create her own "concert program" at home, learning from videotapes in her parents' collection, watching actors, dancers, and TV presenters indiscriminately. She was hungry, and any opportunity to listen to music or watch a cassette was precious. She recalls the opening of a "summer cinema" nearby, but the screenings were in the evening, and her parents couldn't allow the girls to go alone at that time. She would go into the courtyard in the evening, listen to the cinema in the dark, imagine the scenes, guess the emotions of the characters by sounds since words were not discernible. Mostly, they showed Indian films without explicit content, so there was a lot of music and dance. Her nightly courtyard experiences became a vast world of feelings and emotions for her, where she played the roles of a screenwriter, director, and performer. This marked the beginning of her romance with this "world of feelings and emotions».