Education
At the age of 13 they moved to France where she finished school and later she went to London to work as an actor at the London Theatre.
At the age of 13 they moved to France where she finished school and later she went to London to work as an actor at the London Theatre.
When she was 7 she moved to Los Angeles with her French-Iranian parents. She later returned to Germany to study film direction at the Deutsche Filmund Fernsehakademie Berlin. She then got a scholarship from the Cinéfondation in Cannes which she used, to write her next movie Töte michigan that is distributed by Les Films du Losange Kill Maine was voted as best fictional foreign language work at the 2013 Bradford Film Festival.
Her first feature-length film Molly"s Way which, like her 2 following feature films was co-authored by Esther Bernstorff received an advancement award at the Filmfest München (film festival Munich) in 2005 for best script and the Grand Jury Award at the March del Plata Film Festival, the only A-Festival in South America as well as several other awards. Her second feature-length film Das Fremde in mir which deals with a young mother having postnatal depression also received several awards and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
