Fariba Haidari

Fariba Haidari was born in Afghanistan and moved to Iran as a child. She was educated in nursing and taught filmmaking in Iran via some film courses which took 2 years. She moved back to Afghanistan after her education. She made some films in Afghanistan and got threats by an extremist group because of a fiction film that she made about remarkable women in Afghanistan’s history. She moved again, this time to Sweden. She has been living in Sweden for 10 years (since 2012) and have made two documentaries and one fiction film.

Works showcased at MENA:

Leila
Documentary
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Short
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25
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Leila is a charming 64-year-old transgender woman who is permanently navigating and negotiating her place in an antagonistic world, just before the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan.