نظربازی Nazarbazi

Synopsis

Nazarbazi, Persian for ‘play of glances’, is a film about love and desire in Iranian cinema, where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited.

Bio/Filmo

Maryam Tafakory is an artist filmmaker whose textual and filmic collages interweave poetry, documentary, archive and found material. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA Doc Fortnight, IFF Rotterdam, ICA London, True/False and Pergamon Museum, among others. She has won numerous awards, including the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Jury Prize at DocumentaMadrid and Best Short Film at Festival de Cine Lima Independiente. She was a Flaherty/Colgate Distinguished Global Filmmaker in Residence, New York, in 2019 and received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2022.