BIOGRAPHIE

Zara Zandieh (they/she) is a filmmaker born and based in Berlin. In 2018 Zara graduated as a master student of Art and Media at the University of the Arts Berlin (Universität der Künste Berlin). The stories told through Zara’s projects are dedicated to a decolonial queer gaze that weaves complexities and multi-layered representations of post-migrant and marginalized subjects into poetic narratives. Zara’s works have been nominated for awards at various film festivals including the BFI FLARE Film Festival, HIFF-Helsinki International Film Festival, EIFF-Edinburgh International Film Festival, Queer Lisboa and DokLeipzig. Zara’s most current project, OCTAVIA’S VISIONS, was recommended for a Research Fellowship of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture & Europe in 2019. OCTAVIA’S VISIONS will premiere at the opening of the Humboldt Forum Berlin in 2021. In 2020 Zara received a Rosa Luxemburg Foundation research grant for FIGHTING THIS DESPAIR WITH JOY, a hybrid documentary project (in development). Zara was selected for the 2021 edition of Berlinale Talents.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2021 Octavia's Visions Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Script, Editing, Text
• 2019 Club Splendida Camera
• 2018 Pirate Boys Camera
• 2018 The Sea Runs Thru My Veins Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Script, Editing, Camera
• 2017 Breakup in 9 Scenes Camera
• 2015 Khoshbakhti Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Camera
• 2015 Notes on the Trilogy of the Interspatiality of Love Camera