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Moss Beach
2023, 73 min, digital

A literary translator in San Francisco is unexpectedly visited by her niece, who she has not seen since a tragic family event. The two then spend the weekend together in a small coastal town.

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Festivals/Screenings: Lower East Side Film Festival, Spectacle Theater

Untitled, Jackson Heights
2024, 4 min, 16mm

An Iranian mother living in Queens sends a letter to her far-away daughter.

Festivals/Screenings: Rooftop Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Independent Film Festival Boston, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, Ithaca Experimental Film Festival, The Museum of the Moving Image

Streaming: NoBudge

Kateh Gojeh Farangi
2024, 10 min, digital

A young woman moving into her Brooklyn apartment makes a Persian recipe.

Festivals/Screenings: London Short Film Festival, Filmfest Dresden, 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, Independent Film Festival Boston

Streaming: NOWNESS

Leila
in development

In a Queens apartment in 1982, a recently immigrated Iranian couple must balance their political activism in their home country with the struggles of making a new life in New York. 40 years later, in the same apartment, their granddaughter finds herself in a period of uncertainty when she loses a job and a roommate in the same week.

Fiscally sponsored by The Gotham.
Shortlisted for the 2025 Creative Capital grant.