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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
In the Land of Arto
2026
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
2025
as Malika
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
2025
as Elena
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
2025
Executive Producer
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
2024
as Sanaz
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
2024
as Zar Amir Ebrahimi
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
2024
as Angine
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
2024
Associate Producer
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
2024
as Self
Mojtaba, Hamzeh, Zar are among other individuals who have been thrown into prison and ideologically interrogated in Iran. In this documentary, the dir...

Tatami
2024
as Maryam Ghanbari
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
2024
Director
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
2023
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
2023
Casting Director
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
2023
as Shayda
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
2023
as Self
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
2023
as Narrator
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
2023
as Chehreh
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
2022
as Rahimi
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
2022
Casting Director, Associate Producer
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
2021
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
2019
as Nadja
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
2019
as Alma
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
2019
as Farzaneh Rezvani
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
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
2017
as Sara
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
2016
as Vida
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
2014
as voice
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
2009
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
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
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
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
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 ...