Narges Kalhor

Narges Kalhor

Born 10/09/1984 (39 years old)
Tehran, Iran

Biography

Narges Kalhor is an Iranian film director, video artist and film editor living in Germany. She studied directing from 2010 to 2019 at the University of Television and Film Munich in the department of documentary film and television journalism. Co-directed there with Benedikt Schwarzer, she made the documentary Shoot Me, which was nominated for the German Short Film Award and German Human Rights Film Award in 2014. Her graduation film In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran celebrated its world premiere at Vision du Réel 2019, received the Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut at DOK Leipzig and was released in Swiss cinemas in early 2020. The film was shown at Berlinale Forum in 2021.

El Festival Internacional de Cine de Guanajuato

Director

Movies
2024

Shahid

Documentaries
2019

In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran

2015

Lavashak (student film)

2013

Shoot Me (student film)

2011

München - Teheran (student film)

Short
2023

Sensitive Content

2016

Gis (student film)

2014

Kafan (student film)

Screenwriter

Movies
2024

Shahid

Documentaries
2019

In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran

2015

Lavashak (student film)

Short
2016

Gis (student film)

Actress

Movies
2024

Shahid

Documentaries
2019

In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran - narrator

Editor

Short
2016

In the Hills