Mitra Farahani

Mitra Farahani (in ; born 1975) is an Iranian filmmaker and painter who currently lives in Paris.

Biography Mitra Farahani was born on January 27, 1975, in Tehran, Iran. Farahani has a degree in graphic art (1997) from Islamic Azad University in Tehran. In 1999, she lived in Hamburg briefly. The Iranian government released her from prison on 30 June 2009. She returned to the Berlin International Film Festival in 2022 with her documentary See You Friday, Robinson, selected in the section Encounters.

Filmography Farahani has directed several films including; Juste une femme (in English: Just a Woman) (2002), the first film about a gender reassignment in Iran, which was mostly shot on hidden cameras. Tabous - Zohre & Manouchehr (2004) Behjat Sadr: Time Suspended (2006) Fifi az Khoshhali Zooze Mikeshad (in English: Fifi Howls from Happiness) (2012), a documentary about the Iranian painter, sculptor and theatre director Bahman Mohasses. See You Friday, Robinson (2022) Farahani has worked as a cinematographer for films including; Ziarat (English: Pilgrimage)(2005) Fifi az Khoshhali Zooze Mikeshad (English: Fifi Howls from Happiness) (2012)

Awards Farahani's Juste une femme (in English: Just a Woman) film won a Teddy Award in 2002 at the Berlin International Film Festival (or Berlinale). and won it the New Horizons Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.