Filmmaker, Producer, Screenwriter, Tutor, Mentor
SHILAN SAADI
I was born and grow up in Mahabad, a Kurdish city in Iran, where I was greatly inspired by its people, its nature, and its culture in my whole life. My love for making films and photography started in this city when I was impatiently looking for a way to make the stories of this city immortal. Cinema is my love; it is my way of living for telling stories about life, about forgotten cultures, also, shed light on the everyday struggles of the Kurdish people, especially Kurdish women, against various forms of oppression. My latest endeavors focus on female directors debuting in directing.