Iranian filmmaker and visual artist, Bani Khoshnoudi makes documentary and fiction films, as well as installations and photography. Her 2009 documentary essay, THE SILENT MAJORITY SPEAKS, banned in Lebanon and Iran, is a political fresco about 100 years of political revolt in Iran that was included in Georges Didi-Huberman’s exhibition project, “Uprisings” for the Jeu de Paume Museum and has been called by Nicole Brenez as one of ten essential films of the century.
Her 2019 fiction feature, FIREFLIES, was made in Mexico, and won the HBO Best Ibero-American Feature award at the Miami International Film Festival. In 2022, she was awarded the prestigious Herb Alpert Award for the Arts for Film and Video, and her work was featured in the 60e Biennale di Venezia main exhibit, “foreigners everywhere”, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Her latest documentary essay, THE VANISHING POINT premiered at Visions du Réel and won the Jury Prize in the Burning Lights Competition. Since 2009, Bani shares her time between Mexico City and Paris.
Films: THE VANISHING POINT (2025), EL CHINERO, A PHANTOM HILL (2023), SAP(2022), BENIZIT(2019), FIREFLIES(2018), :TRANSIT(S) : OUR TRACES, OUR RUIN (2026), THE SILENT .MAJORITY SPEAKS (2014), ZIBA (2012), THE SILENT MAJORITY SPEAKS (2010), A PEOPLE IN THE SHADOWS (2008), TRANSIT (2005, short)