
Maryam Tafakory
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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.
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Razeh-del (2025)
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Absent Wound (2018)
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Mast-Del (2023)
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Irani Bag (2021)
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Taklif (2014)
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chaste/unchaste (2023)
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Nazarbazi (2022)
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CodeNames (2022)
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Daria’s Night Flowers (2025)
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Ghazal-e Sorkh (2026)
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Fragments of a Letter to an Unborn Child (2015)
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I Was Five When I Became a Woman (2013)
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I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin (2018)
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Poem and Stone (2015)
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Shab-Nameh: Women of Iran’s Forgotten Left (2026)
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