Biography
Maryam Zaree is a German stage and screen actress, writer and filmmaker.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Not a Word
2024
as Barban
On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film st...

Skin Deep
2023
as Fabienne
At first glance, Leyla and Tristan are a happy couple. When they travel to a mysterious island, a game of identities begins that changes everything – ...

No Hard Feelings
2020
as Mina
Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr dates, and raves. After being ...

Leif in Concert Vol. 2
2020
It's Lene's first day back at work after some time off. Friends and acquaintances, regulars and strangers come to her jazz and blues bar. While Lene i...

Undine
2020
as Monika
Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a ...

Music and Apocalypse
2019
as Wendela Wendela
Phoebe Phaidon works as a climatologist at an institute of cybernetics which is about to be shut down. So there has to be a solution in the form of a ...

Born in Evin
2019
as Self
Follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious...

Born in Evin
2019
Director, Writer, Additional Camera
Follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious...

System Crasher
2019
as Elli Heller
Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to c...

TKKG
2019
as Susanne Carsten
When Willi's father is abducted and is only released for a valuable statue from his art collection, Tim is the only one who believes Willi that the po...

Transit
2018
as Melissa
In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in ...

Club Europa
2017
as Yasmin
Martha, Yasmin, Jamie and Sam live in a shared apartment in Kreuzberg. Martha is from France, Yasmin from Germany, Jamie from the U.S. and Sam from Ca...
Welcome to Iceland
2016
as Alicia
In the desolate Icelandic highlands, two lowbrow lovers lose their ride, a suited suicide his trigger finger, and a nuclear family their center. Losin...

Rising Voices
2015
as Esma
A handful of migrants without papers decide to start a hunger strike. Day by day, overcoming the violence that they inflict upon themselves, they disc...

Marry Me!
2015
as Kissy
Kishori, unmarried and mother to a daughter, and her sister Sonal live in a house in Berlin. The house and a cafe on the ground floor are led by Kisho...

A Quintet
2014
as Ayala
A quintet is an omnibus feature told from the perspective of five international up and coming filmmakers who are searching to find identity in the mod...

Willkommen bei Habib
2014
as Semra
Four men’s destinies slam into each other and intertwine on four balmy summer nights. Old wounds are reopened, new ones appear, unexpectedly there is ...

Superegos
2014
as Jeanne
Nick Gutlicht lives of illegally selling valuable books, owes money to a bunch of other crooks and has to hide from them. By chance he ends up in the...

I Am Not Him
2013
as Ayşe / Asiye
Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her ob...

Unter Feinden
2013
Police officers Kessel and Driller are supposed to be on the lookout for an internationally wanted war criminal. But Kessel is a junkie, gets into a f...

Move
2012
as Bibelforscher
Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And...

Tod einer Polizistin
2012
as Eden Nasrallah
The alleged murderer of a policewoman, Frank Keller, applies for release from preventive detention after 15 years in prison. However, it is rejected. ...

Brothers
2012
as Derya
Cengiz and Savaş are two unlike brothers. Cengiz is an associate in a respected law firm and Savaş is serving a prison sentence because of several vio...

Abgebrannt
2011
as Pelin
Pelin, a young single mother from the problem neighborhood of Berlin-Wedding, is sent with her three children by different fathers of different nation...

Faith
2010
as Maryam
The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western so...

Engel sucht Liebe
2009
as Gülcen
Before Christmas, the angels have the mission to make happier 70% of the people. The story is based on angel Uriel and two new angels helping him.

Mein Vogel fliegt schneller
2009
as Marie
Eleven young people live in a city. It is midsummer. This is the starting point of the escalation of seemingly harmonious relationships. A postmodern ...
Opfer
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Writer, Director
Sina and her best friend Aleks are young teenagers of immigrant origin in Germany in 1993, but a film project on a school trip puts their symbiotic fr...