features
Moss Beach
2023, 73 min, digital
A literary translator in San Francisco is unexpectedly visited by her niece, who she has not seen since a tragic family event. The two then spend the weekend together in a small coastal town.
trailer. press packet. website.
Leila
in development
In a Queens apartment in 1982, a recently immigrated Iranian couple must balance their political activism in their home country with the struggles of making a new life in New York. 40 years later, in the same apartment, their granddaughter finds herself in a period of uncertainty when she loses a job and a roommate in the same week.
Fiscally sponsored by The Gotham.
Short listed for the 2025 Creative Capital grant.
shorts
Untitled, Jackson Heights
2024, 4 min, 16mm
An Iranian mother living in Queens sends a letter to her far-away daughter.
festivals: Athens International Film and Video Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Independent Film Festival Boston, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, Ithaca Experimental Film Festival
streaming: NoBudge
Kateh Gojeh Farangi
2024, 10 min, digital
A young woman moving into her Brooklyn apartment makes a Persian recipe.
festivals: London Short Film Festival, Filmfest Dresden, 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, Independent Film Festival Boston
sales agent: Lights On
