Filmmaker & Visual artist grappling with historical archives, literature, and photography, seeking innovative narrative pathways through an unconventional exploration of history and unofficial narratives.
Alumni of Berlinale Talents 2023 & Graduated in Theatre and Dramatic Literature at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tehran University in 2015.
His artistic work focuses on integrating untold stories in history, photography, music, and literature.
In 2006, he started collaborating with some publications as a photographer.
In 2010, he also started working in theatre and cinema, mainly as a writer and director, as well as in visual arts.
He has participated in more than ten solo and group exhibitions (including photography, video art, and performance art) and created three short and one feature-length film that has been screened at festivals such as Berlinale, Jihlava, FipaDoc, Kasseler Dok, Black Movie, Tehran Short Film, Cinema-Verite, Fajr, VideoFormes, etc.
Member of: the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association (IRDFA) / Iranian House of Cinema / Honorary member of Visual Arts Development Institute
-Winner of the Emerging Video Prize in the 39th VIDEOFORMES Festival 2024
-Arte Laguna Prize Finalist, Arsenal Nord, Venice, Italy 2024
-Selected as Best Short Documentary of the 2010s in Iranian Cinema 2021
-Twice chosen as Best Short Film of the Year by critics of Fidan Magazine, 2021 / 2023
Participated in:
-Film Focus programme in cooperation with Berlin “InterFilm” 2021
-Berlinale Talent - Short Form Station” in 2023
-BERLIN Artist-in-Residency Programme in 2023
-Beykuz Kundura DocLab in Istanbul in 2023
-Istanbul Cine-Collective Programme in 2024
  • Writer (4 Credits)
    Karun The Longest River of Iran2024
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
    Slaughter2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
    The House of Forgetfulness2020
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Other
    Fragments of a revolution2019
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Director (4 Credits)
    Karun The Longest River of Iran2024
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
    Slaughter2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
    The House of Forgetfulness2020
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Other
    Fragments of a revolution2019
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Producer (3 Credits)
    Karun The Longest River of Iran2024
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
    Slaughter2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
    Fragments of a revolution2019
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
Emerging Video Award
Slaughter
Video Fromes video and hybrid arts fetival
Celermon-Ferran
2024
College
B.A in Tehran university of fine arts
20092015
Birth Date
November 17, 1991
Nickname
Sahand
Birth City
Tehran
Hometown
Tehran
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
middle eastern
Filmmaker & Visual artist grappling with historical archives, literature, and photography, seeking innovative narrative pathways through an unconventional exploration of history and unofficial narratives.
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