Maryam Tafakory
- Known for
- Directing
- Birthplace
- Shiraz, Iran
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
Shab-Nameh: Women of Iran’s Forgotten Left 2026
Director
Ghazal-e Sorkh 2026
Director, Editor, Screenplay
Daria’s Night Flowers 2025
Director
Razeh-del 2025
Director, Screenplay, Editor
chaste/unchaste 2023
Director
Mast-Del 2023
Director, Editor, Sound, Writer
CodeNames 2022
Actor, Director
Nazarbazi 2022
Director, Editor, Writer
Irani Bag 2021
Director
I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin 2018
Director, Sound Designer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
Absent Wound 2018
Director
Poem and Stone 2015
Director
Fragments of a Letter to an Unborn Child 2015
Director
Taklif 2014
Director
I Was Five When I Became a Woman 2013
Director
Credits from TMDB.