Bani Khoshnoudi (Tehran, 1977) is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. Her work explores themes related to revolution, modernity, and their impact on memory, exile, and migration. In 2022, she received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. She is the founder of the audiovisual production company Pensée Sauvage Films.
Total trailers found: 13
10 December 2012
Ziba is an upper-class housewife in today's modern Tehran. Unable to relate to her environment or to her alienating life, she lives within her repetition unable to express to those around her what is wrong.
21 October 2018
Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico.
26 July 2005
On the road to England, Arya, a young Afghan boy, crosses Europe's borders with other exiles. Near Italy he is separated from the group and sent by smugglers towards Paris.
01 January 2008
Almost thirty years after the revolution, and twenty since the end of the long Iran-Iraq war, A People in the Shadows takes us on a voyage into the heart of Tehran, a megalopolis of 14 million people.
01 July 2022
El Chinero is a rugged hill in the desert, 140 km south of Mexicali in the Baja California region of Mexico.
21 May 2013
This video in two screens (for a projection or an installation) proposes a reflection on the place of immigrant workers in modern society, as well as an observation of the foundations of our cities and our cemeteries.
01 June 2010
The Silent Majority Speaks collects images from several different cameras secretly recording the protests in the wake of the fraudulent June 2009 Iranian presidential elections.
12 July 2012
Filmed on Super-8 during a demonstration of Kurds in Paris, Cem joins the idea of a collective body.
01 January 2012
Working with archival images from a key historic moment—the Iranian Revolution—the image-based study explores notions of duration (cinematic and historical), memory (virtual and image-based), and their sensory and emotional (affective) impact as historical and potentially ‘revolutionary’ themes.
01 January 2016
“Exiles, refugees, undocumented migrants – whatever word we use to talk about it, the movement of human beings across the planet is a millennia-old and repetitive story, following the formations of our civilizations, their catastrophes and sometimes their downfalls.
06 April 2025
Exiled from Iran after the ban on her 2009 film about the Green Movement, a filmmaker breaks her family’s decades-long silence about a disappeared cousin, executed during the 1988 purges in political prisons.
13 February 2019
A Zapotec man from the future tells the story of how in the 21st century a new invasion of “foreigners” was afflicting his village.
