Sarvnaz Alambeigi

Sarvnaz Alambeigi is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist best known for documentary filmmaking and painting. She graduated from Graphic Art School and studied painting at the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. She received film training from 2013 to 2018 at Documentary Campus Masterschool and Danish Film School. In 2013, she founded her own film company, Rabison Art. In June 2017, her short documentary film “Cypher and Lion”, was released at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. In October 2021, the project for her upcoming feature film “Maydegol” (Broken Flower) won Saxon Award for the Best Documentary Project by a Female Director at the 64th edition of DOK Leipzig. In 2021, Alambeigi was awarded the prize for best pitch at the Sunny Side of the Doc Global Pitch. She was later selected as a jury member for the 2022 season of prizes. Alambeigi’s most notable work is “1001 Nights Apart”, a documentary released in 2022 in Germany that won the VFF Documentary Film Production Award at DOK.fest Munich. It was shown in cinemas across Germany in 2022, as well as on TV channels such as Arte, SVT ,TVO and Avrotros. She is currently a member of Film Fatales, The European Women’s Audiovisual Network and the Association of Iranian Documentary Cinema Directors.