Maryam Tafakory

Maryam Tafakory, born and raised in Iran, works with film and performance, bringing together poetry, speculative nonfiction, and archival material to dissect veiled acts of erasure: of bodies, intimacies, and histories. She was the 2024 winner of Film London Jarman Award. 
Solo screenings of her work include MoMA (New York), BOZAR (Brussels), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), and Academy Museum (Los Angeles), among others. 
Her recent films have won six Academy-qualifying awards. Mast-del, premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, was nominated for the Queer Palm, and was among Film Comment’s Best Short Films of 2023. Selected group events: Tate Modern, NYFF, Locarno, TIFF, and BFI LFF. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Le Monde, and Les Cahiers du Cinéma, among others.

Filmography

2025 Daria's Night Flowers
2024 Razeh-del 
2023 Mast-del
2021 Nazarbazi
2020 Irani Bag
2017 I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin 
2016 Absent Wound
2015 Poem & Stone
2014 Taklif
2014 I Was Five
2014 Fragments of a Letter

Selected project: "Hospital of Irremediable Desires"

When Roya finds a cassette tape her mother buried behind a kitchen cabinet, she knows there must be more. As she begins searching for the tapes, several recorded voices fill her family home, recounting stories of illicit love, irremediable desires, and dreams of liberation. These offer a glimpse into the role of women in a popular leftist movement that was suppressed on several fronts: by the pre- and post-revolution Iranian governments, the CIA and MI6.