GRANTS AND AWARDS
2026
Jury Award, German Competition, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
2025
Gwaertler Grant, Switzerland
Art Prize, MdbK [now]. Positions of Young Art from Central Germany
2024
Förderankäufe, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Germany
Student Prize in Media Art, Freundeskreises der HGB, Leipzig, Germany
2021 Honorable Mention, Frese-Design-Preis, Bremen, Germany
2019 Honorable Mention, Hochschultage 2019, Bremen, Germany
2018-2020 DAAD Scholarship, Field of Fine Arts, Germany
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2026
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Short & Mid-length
Palinale Film Festival, Berlin
One World Romania 19
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
2024
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
Archival Shifts: Rewinding and Resuming History, Shapeshifting Festival, Berlin, Germany
2023
DIFFUSION, YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto, Canada
Filmfest Bremen, Bremen, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITION
2018 Bleeding, Pirsook Art Space, Shiraz, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2026
MdbK[now] Prize exhibition, Museum der bildende Künste Leipzig
2025
Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, nGbK Berlin
2024
Gunzenhauser Museum, Chemnitz, Germany
Exit allowed? , Universitätsbibliothek Albertina, Leipzig, Germany
2023
Showing what we (don’t) know – Images as research, Japanisches Palais, Dresden, Germany
Everchanging, Galeriefest Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Sorry, I have to leave, EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
When The Atmosphere Is Less Than Perfect, MZIN / MdBK, Leipzig, Germany
2022
Return, Pejman: Kandovan, Tehran, Iran (Curated by Foad Alijani)
LAACT 3.0 Workshop and Exhibition, Four Domes Pavilion, Wrocław, Poland
2021
Arcipelago, Eglise, Palermo, Italy
Paradiesvögel, Taubenheim Gallery, Bremen, Germany (Frese-Design-Preis)
Archivio Performante, HGB Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (Curated by Tina Bara, Alba D’Urbano, Bettina Hutschek)
Come Closer, Halle 14 / f/stop Festival, Leipzig, Germany (Curated by Özlem Altin, Tina Bara, Sophia Kesting, Sandra Schubert)
2020
Amateur PET, Mygration Festival, Berlin, Germany
2019
SEE Djerba Festival, Houmt Souk, Tunisia
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Walk Notations, nGbK Berlin
2025 Art and Research in Conversation, Stannaki Forum / Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany
2024 Exit Allowed, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Germany
EDUCATION
2022–2025 Diploma in Expanded Cinema, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany
2020–2021 Photography and Moving Image, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany
2017–2020 MA in Digital Media, University of the Arts Bremen, Germany
2009–2014 BA in Visual Communication, Al-Zahra Art University, Tehran, Iran