Daria has written her first manuscript about falling in love with a mysterious girl called ‘abi’ [blue]. The night flowers in her garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes.
Daria’s Night Flowers
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“a work that uniquely stitches together poetry, silence, fragments, and multiple layers of images to explore the feminine universe within a space of struggle and resistance”
“a work that uniquely stitches together poetry, silence, fragments, and multiple layers of images to explore the feminine universe within a space of struggle and resistance”
Maryam Tafakory
Biography
Maryam Tafakory, born and raised in Iran, works with film and performance. Solo screenings of her work include MoMA, BOZAR, National Gallery of Art, and Academy Museum, among others. Selected screenings include Tate Modern, Cannes’ Directors Fortnight, New York Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival.
Selected awards include, Gold Hugo at 58th Chicago Int’l Film Festival, Tiger Short Award at 51st IFFR, and Best Experimental Film at 70th and 71st MIFF. She was the 2024 winner of Film London Jarman Award. Her work has featured in The Guardian, Le Monde, and Les Cahiers du Cinéma.
Filmography
● Daria’s Night Flowers (2025) – 16‘
● Razeh-del (2024) – 28‘
● Mast-del (2023) – 17‘
● Nazarbazi (2021) – 19‘
● Irani Bag (2020) – 8‘
● I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin (2017) – 9’
● Absent Wound (2016) – 8‘
● Poem & Stone (2015) – 8‘
● Fragments of a Letter (2014) – 4‘
● Taklif (2014) – 6‘
● I was five (2014) – 5‘
