Faranak Sahafian

From Isfahan, Iran, and interested in poetry and Persian literature from a very young age, Faranak is an award winning writer director who moved to the United States for her BFA in filmmaking where she made the short films The Dark Room (2017) and Mirror (2018), both exploring social themes with female protagonists. During her studies at Columbia University MFA Film program, she explored surrealism and realism in her short films Sufi (2021) and Black Red White (2021), The Big Red Balloon (2022), Kisses and Bullets (2024), Auto Plus (2021) and InkShop (2022). Her work has screened in festivals such as Tribeca, Palm Springs ShortFest, HollyShorts, Siff, Manchester, and Cinequest. She is currently developing her first feature film, a surreal drama named The Dark Room inspired by her own immigration experience, with two female characters in parallel.