Sepideh Farsi
(France)

Sepideh Farsi was born in Tehran in 1965 but left Iran in 1980 and went to Paris in 1984 to study mathematics. However, eventually she was drawn to the visual arts and initially experimented in photography before making her first short films. Her first two features Dreams Of Dust and The Gaze premiered at Rotterdam in 2006.
Farsi was a Member of the Jury of the Locarno International Film Festival in Best First Feature in 2009. She won the FIPRESCI Prize (2002), Cinéma du Réel and Traces de Vie prize (2001) for Homi D. Sethna, filmmaker and Best documentary prize in Festival dei Popoli (2007) for Harat. In December 2009, Tehran Without Permission was shown at the Dubai International Film Festival.

Films
Filmography
7 Veils
2017
Red Rose
2014
The House Under Water
2010
Tehran bedoune mojavez / Teheran without Permission
2009
If it were Icarus
2008
Harat
2007
Le regard / The Gaze
2006
Khab-e khak / Dreams of Dust
2003
Le voyage de Maryam
2003
Safar-e Maryam / The journey of Maryam
2002
Mardan-e Atash / Men of Fire
2001
Homi D. Sethna, Film-maker
2000
Donya khaneye man ast / The world is my home
1999
Khabe Âb / Water dreams
1997

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