Director · Writer
An Iranian director and screenwriter based in Rome since 2020. Her short films Groundless (2018) and Outcast (2023) have been selected at international festivals. In 2024, she founded La Città dell’Utopia International Film Festival, serving as artistic director to support emerging filmmakers and independent, low-budget cinema.
She holds a degree in Cinema from Tehran University of Art and a master’s degree in Film Art from RUFA in Rome.
Following her work as executive producer on international short films, she is currently collaborating with Fandango, a film production and distribution company in Rome, as executive producer on an Italian-Iranian feature, and is a screenwriter in the Moon Trip writers’ room under the supervision of Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli. In 2026 she was selected for CineCampus – Terre di Cinema in Syracuse as a screenwriter for two short films, and for the Lecco Film Fest development lab as one of the filmmakers under 35 developing their first feature.
A free interpretation of Roberto Bolaño’s Last Evenings on Earth. Over a single night in Rome, an exiled playwright and a young Kurdish refugee meet for the first time and spend the night together.
Nights reveal what daylight leaves unseen.
Outcast Director
A haunting reality shapes the film’s atmosphere of loss and disappearance, where the boundaries between labor, life, and death begin to blur. A free interpretation of a story by Bijan Najdi, shot in an abandoned factory with workers awaiting layoffs.
A body that remains, like everything within it, groundless.
Groundless Director
Executive producer
International production, Naples, Italy.
Artistic director & film curator
A Rome-based festival promoted by Servizio Civile Internazionale (SCI) and supported by Erasmus+, dedicated to independent, low-budget and non-mainstream short films from around the world.
OffScreen is rooted in two places — Tehran and Rome.
Working across borders, we are eager to share our work internationally and always open to new collaborations.