Ida Panahandeh was born in Tehran. She has an MFA in Film Directing, and a BFA in Film Photography. She started filmmaking when a student in Tehran Art University, and she has made many short films. As a talented filmmaker, she was invited to make TV movies for State Iranian TV and awarded in different national TV Festivals. She was chosen and invited to participate in 2009’s Berlinale “Talent Campus” with her short film “Cockscomb Flower”. As a female filmmaker, she has always been interested in women’s issues and has tried to do her best in improving the cultural view on women’s rights by making documentaries and also through her first feature film, NAHID.
