Sahraa Karimi
Biography
Sahraa Karimi is a film director born on April 20, 1981, to Afghan refugee parents in Iran. She holds a PhD in Cinema from the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava, where her short film Light Breeze won the Best Short Fiction Film award at the Sun in a Net Awards. Karimi directed the documentary Searching for Dream in 2006, and her fiction film Hava, Maryam, Ayesha premiered at the 76th Venice Film Festival.