About
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.
Filmography
Daria’s Night Flowers2025 · Director
Razeh-del2025 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
chaste/unchaste2023 · Director
Mast-Del2023 · Director, Writer, Sound, Editor
CodeNames2022 · Director
Nazarbazi2022 · Director, Editor, Writer
Irani Bag2021 · Director
I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin2018 · Director, Producer, Editor, Sound Designer, Director of Photography
Absent Wound2018 · Director
Poem and Stone2015 · Director
Fragments of a Letter to an Unborn Child2015 · Director
Taklif2014 · Director
I Was Five When I Became a Woman2013 · Director