12 Facts About Amina Maher

Amina Maher is an Iranian-born queer feminist artist, activist, actress, and filmmaker living in Berlin, Germany.

Amina Maher's works are focused on the breakdown of family structure, shame culture, and patriarchal myths.

Amina Maher started writing poems and short stories at a very early age.

Amina Maher began her cinematic activity as the main actor in Abbas Kiarostami and Mania Akbari's Ten, which recorded ten-year-old Amina sitting in the passenger seat of her mother's car without her knowledge.

Between 2006 and 2012, Amina Maher continued her cinematic activity as an actor, assistant director and editor to her mother, Mania Akbari, on several films, such as 10+4 which premiered at Cannes Acid Section and San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2006, as well as From Tehran to London, premiered in 2013 at International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Amina Maher was arrested two days after 2009 Iranian presidential election and had been subjected to serious beatings.

Amina Maher subsequently left Iran to Dubai and then to Malaysia.

Amina Maher's multi-award winning short film, Letter to My Mother, was well received internationally with over 200 festival selections and over 50 Awards.

Amina Maher's film navigates the vast yet fragile space between self-exploration and family politics within a sociocultural frame.

Amina Maher encourages herself and her environment to embrace vulnerability and reclaim bodies, care and pleasure.

Four years after that, Amina Maher performed the main role in Mania Akbari's 10+4, a continuation of the movie Ten, which followed Akbari's battle with breast cancer.

Amina Maher subsequently left Iran to study filmmaking at Limkokwing University in Malaysia and directed several short films.