International Association of Women in Radio & Television India (IAWRT). 

This selection of seven films by young Iranian women filmmakers, delves into the fragile and shifting nature of contemporary existence, as seen through their unique perspectives. 

This selection of seven films by young Iranian women filmmakers, delves into the fragile and shifting nature of contemporary existence, as seen through their unique perspectives.

Annemarie Jacir, Arab Loutfi, Jocelyne Saab, Larissa Sansour, Selma Baccar, Mary Jirmanus Saba, Mona Hatoum, Nahed Awwad, Nina Menkes. 

Kuratiert von Pegah Pasalar, Sadaf Sadri und Cryptofiction.
Einleitung und Gespräch von Sarah Savalanpour. Screening at B-Movie Kulturinitiative auf St.Pauli gemeinnütziger e.V. Hamburg. 

Five Short Films by Young Female Filmmakers from Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, and Palestine to be soon showcased at the 32nd Raindance Festival 2024 in London, curated by Mania Akbari.

A Retrospective of Ahmad Ghossein is availbe on Cryptofiction 2024. 

A Retrospective Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind is availbe on Cryptofiction 2024. 

Mania By Behdad Esfahbod 2024

A RETROSPECTIVE OF GULIZ SAGLAM ON CRYPTOFICTION

Disruption: Contemporary Shorts by Iranian Women Filmmakers at Wolf Cinema Berlin. 
The Zoo by Nafiseh Zare
Dissociation by Peivand Eghtesadi
Raya by Sepideh Berenji
The Region by Asma Ebrahimzadegan
Iran Second day by Kiana Montajabi
Hair by Samaneh Yadollahi

Disruption: Contemporary Shorts by Iranian Women Filmmakers at Barbican London. 
The Zoo by Nafiseh Zare
Dissociation by Peivand Eghtesadi
Raya by Sepideh Berenji
The Region by Asma Ebrahimzadegan
Iran Second day by Kiana Montajabi
Hair by Samaneh Yadollahi

The Whelming Sea by Sean Hanley Declarations of Love by Tiff Rekem No more room in hell by rebecca shapass Grandma's Scissors by Erica Sheu

Cryptofiction stand in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank who are facing an escalation of violence by Israel aimed at their displacement, dispossession and destruction. What we are witnessing right now in Gaza is a genocide. A culmination of violence which has been ongoing for 75 years.

We Had Each Other by Kelly Gallagher
May The Earth Become The Sky By Ana Vîjdea
Inhale/Exhale by Andrey Silvestrov
Celebrating The Next Twinkling by Boryana Rossa
Parenthesis by Vasilios Papaioannu

There Were Multiple Choices, But We Could Not Decide, 2013, by Arash Fayez Freedom, 2015, by Jinoos Taghizadeh So-city of Spectacle: a practice of freedom, 2015, by Mitra Kia & Maryam Nesami Charcoal Alley, 2020, by Niyaz Saghari The Adventures of Super Sohrab, 2022, by Sohrab Kashani

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish by Mania Akbari: this feminist Iranian essay film pulls no punches. This important film by Mania Akbari, an Iranian exile based in London, compiles dozens of clips of Iranian women in popular cinema from the silent era up until the 1979 Islamic Revolution to make an impassioned statement of female agency. 7 December 2022. By Carmen Gray

Mania Akbari explores the depiction of women on screen through an archive of pre-Revlutionary Iranian cinema.

HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH BY MANIA AKBARI at Barbican. London, 9th March, 2023.

HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH BY MANIA AKBARI at Whitechapel Gallery on 25th Feb, 2023.

HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH BY MANIA AKBARI at DOCPOINT Film Festival. Feb 2023.

HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH BY MANIA AKBARI at Gothenburg Film festival, Jan 2023

HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH BY MANIA AKBARI at BLACK MOVIE Film Festival. Swiss, Jan 2023.

The film documents the life of Falaknaz, an Iranian woman living with her two daughters in a small rural village in western Iran. In the film, we observe the daily ups and downs of her life during the director’s six-month stay with Falaknaz and her family.

Chive Pockets by Emily Chao
A Mother’s Body by Jonelle Twum
Maquilapolis by Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre
Long Haulers by Amy Reid
Mothertime by Kristy Guevera-Flanagan

HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH BY MANIA AKBARI at CINEMATEKET, Denmark DFI. Jan 2023

HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH by Mania Akbari at POFF BLACK NIGHT, Tallin Film Festival. 

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish by Mania Akbari at IDFA, World Premier, December 2022

Reconstruction
The Samantha Smith Project
The Motherhood Archives
Maternity Test
Yours in Sisterhood
Contents Inventory

Next year, we will leave by Juliette Joffé
Life After Death by Pierre Creton
32 + 4 by Chan Hau Chun
An Act of Affection by Việt Vũ
I never got the time to know you by Adam Christensen
We Went to Wonderland by Xiaolu Guo
Face Deal by Mary Jiménez Freeman-Morris

Mania Akbari’s long documentary “How Dare You Have Such Rubbish Wish” has been selected to compete for the IDFA Envision award in Amsterdam. 

A RETROSPECTIVE. 1st June- 1st July 2022

In a streaming market in which catalogue size and clicks are what matter, Mania Akbari has created a platform that gives room to quality and political commitment

On Cryptofiction
A new independent, artist-focused streaming channel shows signs of life beyond the mainstream.

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Mania Akbari’s 6 Video Arts - Self, Repression, Sin, Escape, Fear and Devastation, shot between 2003-2005 – come as a project which no longer cherishes such (idealistic?) hopes.

"Public Figure" is a collaboration between artist and filmmaker Madalia Zaharia and poet and performer Ryan Ormonde.

The Wet House by Penny Woolcock. Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter by Deborah Hoffmann. You Have No Idea How Much I Love You by Paweł Łozińsk. Passing Through by Emma Cheung Everything. Must Change So Everything Can Stay The Same by George Marigold.

In a streaming market in which catalogue size and clicks are what matter, Mania Akbari has created a platform that gives room to quality and political commitment WORDS BY BECCA VOELCKER

On January 8th, the Ukranian Airlines flight PS752 was shot down by the Iranian regime with at least two missiles and Javad Soleimani lost the love of his life, Elnaz Nabiyi. After the screening, Ben Nicholson hosts a ScreenTalk with director Mania Akbari live onstage, and producer Javad Soleimani joins via Zoom.

4films by 4filmmakers. Let my Body Speak by Madonna Adib The Perfect Picture by Hala El Kouch The Pain of Others by Penny Lane No Crying at the Dinner Table by Carol Nguyen

See, Hear, Speak by Maria Kheirkhah 
Ma by Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Beak Breast by Miriam Austin
Re: Site (after R.M.) by Martina Schmücker
Mother Tongue, Mother Master Phoebe Collings-James

6Films by Sharone Lifschitz. The Visitor, Best City in the World—Looking after Belfast (Raymond’s Loss), The Line and the Circle, 
Wedge, Munich In Four Courses, Interluding. 

Abbas zahedi curated 5films. Skin (here) by Olivia du Vergier. Hovering Over The Waters by Nikolai Azariah. Nelson's Vandre by John Antony. Flags of Love by Molly Haviland. Prelude to Trial 312 by Arsalan Isa. 

Stone Garden project started in 2002 for Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art 1st Conceptual Art Exhibition. The video art depicts an abstract innate journey with a handy-cam manoeuvring among the trees of a garden in the heart of a desert in the outskirts of a city in southern Iran _ a garden made of dead brunches and trunks with fruits of stone. 

4 Films, The Ghost Frequency, Unquiet Earth, Pieces of Bob, Time To Go by Chiara Ambrosio.
1-30 Nov2021. 

Andrea Luka Zimmerman curated 6 films by 6 filmmakers: On Akka’s Shore by Umama Hamido. Slow Delay by Therese Henningsen. 10+4 by Mania Akbari. Salata Baladi by Nadia Kamel. Ghost Hunting By Raed Andoni. Soosk by Katayoun Jalilipour. The films will be release first October 2021 on on-demand programme.

In a French travel book to the Middle East, a drawing of an ancient bathhouse sparks a visual poem inspired by the Arab poetic tradition of "standing by the ruins." The ambivalence of the five-hundred-year-old image gestures towards enduring imperial power dynamics. Pleasure and pain, seduction and domination, homoeroticism and violence, archives and ruins, histories of sex and of empire, all commingle in this essay film.

Cryptofiction is delighted to present eight films by Jordan Baseman.

Cryptofiction is delighted to present three films by Minou Norouzi.

Cryptofiction is delighted to present five films by Kim Longinotto.

LYNNE SACHS: FROM WHICH WAY IS EAST (1994) TO EPISTOLARY: LETTER TO JEAN VIGO (2021)

[May 10-31, 2021] Available on-demand.

We are pleasure to announce Layers has one the Best Photography Film award at the Venice Fine Arts Film Festival 2021.

[June 4-17, 2021] Leyla Once Again will have its world premiere at Istanbul Film Festival.

[June 8-14, 2021]Layers will be screened as part of the Fine Arts Film Festival in Venice, California.

[May 6-16, 2021] Dear Elnaz will be screening at DOXA, Vancouver.

[April 20-May 8, 202] Dear Elnaz will be screening at HotDocs Toronto

[April 10-30, 2021] Available on-demand

[May 1-30, 2021] Available on-demand

December 10-31, 2020. Available on demand

[November 25-28] in "My body for your solitude" program.

[November 16-December 6, 2020] Official Selection: Frontlight

[November 4-15, 2020] Official Selection: Essay Film Section.