Maryam Tafakory
Directing
Biography
Maryam Tafakory, born and raised in Iran, works with film and performance. Solo screenings of her work include MoMA, BOZAR, NGA, Washington DC, and Academy Museum, among others. Selected group events include Tate Modern, Cannes’ Directors Fortnight, New York Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. She was awarded the Gold Hugo at the 58th Chicago Int’l Film Festival, Tiger Short Award at the 51st IFFR, and Best Experimental Film at the 70th and 71st MIFF.
As actor 1
On the crew 15
Absent Wound
2018
Razeh-del
2025
Mast-Del
2023
Taklif
2014
chaste/unchaste
2023
Irani Bag
2021
Nazarbazi
2022
CodeNames
2022
Daria’s Night Flowers
2025
Ghazal-e Sorkh
2026
Shab-Nameh: Women of Iran’s Forgotten Left
2026
I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin
2018
I Was Five When I Became a Woman
2013
Fragments of a Letter to an Unborn Child
2015
Poem and Stone
2015