Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

1981-07-09 Tehran, Iran 32 Credits

Biography

Zar Amir Ebrahimi (born Zahra Amir Ebrahimi) is an Iranian-French actress, producer and director. She is known for her role in television series Nargess, and for her performance as journalist Rahimi in the crime-thriller Holy Spider, which won her the Best Actress award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

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In the Land of Arto

2026

Acting

Céline arrives in Armenia for the first time to legalize the death of Arto, her husband. She discovers that he has lied to her, that he fought in the ...

The Vanishing

The Vanishing

2025

as Malika

7.5
Acting

Reda seemingly has a life of privilege in Algiers, in his late twenties still living at the family home, with a father who has arranged a job and a fi...

Satisfaction

Satisfaction

2025

as Elena

Acting

Set against the backdrop of the Greek isles, the film follows Lola who takes revenge against her sexual partner Philip. Things begin to unravel when t...

Satisfaction

Satisfaction

2025

Executive Producer

Producing

Set against the backdrop of the Greek isles, the film follows Lola who takes revenge against her sexual partner Philip. Things begin to unravel when t...

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024

as Sanaz

7.4
Acting

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, se...

The Trainer

The Trainer

2024

as Zar Amir Ebrahimi

8.0
Acting

Jack Flex, a penniless, muscle-bound "creative genius" who maniacally pursues his dream of appearing on his mother's favorite home shopping channel to...

Two People Exchanging Saliva

Two People Exchanging Saliva

2024

as Angine

Acting

In a repressive society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face. Angine, an unhappy woman, shop...

Two People Exchanging Saliva

Two People Exchanging Saliva

2024

Associate Producer

Producing

In a repressive society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face. Angine, an unhappy woman, shop...

My Worst Enemy

My Worst Enemy

2024

as Self

7.0
Acting

Mojtaba, Hamzeh, Zar are among other individuals who have been thrown into prison and ideologically interrogated in Iran. In this documentary, the dir...

Tatami

Tatami

2024

as Maryam Ghanbari

7.8
Acting

Iranian female judokas Leila and her coach Maryam, travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway thro...

Tatami

Tatami

2024

Director

7.8
Directing

Iranian female judokas Leila and her coach Maryam, travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway thro...

Please Rise

Please Rise

2023

Acting

A short political drama about a committee that is formed to choose a new national anthem after a fictional country goes through a revolution.

Opponent

Opponent

2023

Casting Director

6.0
Directing

In the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in northern S...

Shayda

Shayda

2023

as Shayda

6.9
Acting

Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hoss...

Inside the Iranian Uprising

Inside the Iranian Uprising

2023

as Self

Acting

In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not ...

Seven Winters in Tehran

Seven Winters in Tehran

2023

as Narrator

7.5
Acting

After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would ...

White Paradise

White Paradise

2023

as Chehreh

6.5
Acting

Samuel, a widower, is taking care of his 7-year-old daughter alone. Overwhelmed and stressed out, he decides to isolate in a chalet he was renovating ...

Holy Spider

Holy Spider

2022

as Rahimi

7.3
Acting

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so ca...

Holy Spider

Holy Spider

2022

Casting Director, Associate Producer

7.3
Directing Producing

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so ca...

The Great Leap

The Great Leap

2021

Acting

A fantasy, road- movie regarding Man and Maryam that embark on an adventure road trip to find their missing along with three others remnant from the c...

Tomorrow We Are Free

Tomorrow We Are Free

2019

as Nadja

6.8
Acting

Iran 1979. The Islamic Revolution is shaking up the country. Dissident Omid, who lived for several years in the German Democratic Republic with his wi...

Tide

Tide

2019

as Alma

5.0
Acting

One night. On the deserted ski slopes, the nocturnal outing of the snow-grooming machines is being prepared. Twenty-five-year-old Antoine meets up wit...

Adopt a Daddy

Adopt a Daddy

2019

as Farzaneh Rezvani

5.8
Acting

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from...

Amir Naderi by Amir Naderi

2018

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Iranian film director Amir Naderi talks to Zar Amir Ebrahimi about his career in this documentary directed and produced by Ebrahimi and broadcast by B...

Tehran Taboo

Tehran Taboo

2017

as Sara

7.1
Acting

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitutio...

Bride Price vs. Democracy

Bride Price vs. Democracy

2016

as Vida

Acting

Omid and Vida grew up as friends in Iran. Now Omid lives in Sweden since many years while Vida still is in Iran. They decide to get married and live t...

Beach Flags

Beach Flags

2014

as voice

7.0
Acting

Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard swimmer. Popular in her team, she is determined to fight in order to be the one to participate in an international c...

Shirin

Shirin

2009

6.1
Acting

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Sh...

Honor of Persia

N/A

as Herself

Acting

The film follows Zar Amir Ebrahimi's last year in Iran, when she was forced to flee the country fearing for her life after a leaked sex tape with her ...

Pieces of a Foreign Life

N/A

Acting

Woman flees war-torn Syria, leaving family behind. Seeking asylum in Bordeaux, she meets French lawyer who helps her rebuild life. Unexpected relation...

30 Bullets

N/A

Acting

The true story of a public prosecutor, a journalist and a terror survivor who, against all odds, take up the fight against two overpowering government...

Honor of Persia

N/A

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

The film follows Zar Amir Ebrahimi's last year in Iran, when she was forced to flee the country fearing for her life after a leaked sex tape with her ...