Iranian filmmaker, trained at Tehran University of Art. She is the author and director of the documentary From Iran, A Separation (2013) about Asghar Farhadi and of the short film Discharged (2017). Her feature-length documentary Finding Farideh was chosen in 2019 to represent Iran at the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category. The short The Visit is inspired by a real story that involved her father when she was a child and it was selected in many international film festivals like Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs International ShortFest, AFI FEST.