Biography
Amina Maher (Persian: امین ماهر, born 1992) is an Iranian-born queer feminist artist, activist, actress, and filmmaker living in Berlin, Germany. Her works are focused on the breakdown of family structure, shame culture, and patriarchal myths. Her creative works criticize traditions, media, culture, and norms. Her cinematic activity began as the main actor in Abbas Kiarostami and Mania Akbari´s Ten (2002) nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. Since then, she acted, edited and has...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Out of Frame
2022
Director
Living in the confinement of a shared apartment with her controlling mother, Narges is soon confronted with the traumatic situation that women face un...
Where Is the Friend's Home?
2022
Director
In search of the creation of an autonomous body, Amina Maher reveals her unspoken desires in the process of honest self-exploration, sharing the most ...
Letter to My Mother
2019
Director
A daughter pushes at the bounds of her relationship with her mother as she unpicks the psychological consequences of the violence she suffered.
From Tehran to London
2013
Executive In Charge Of Production, Assistant Director
Mania Akbari’s From Tehran to London (2012), has a Russian-doll structure. It begins with Akbari shooting her latest film entitled Women Do Not Have B...
10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar)
2007
as acteur
After casting painter and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his groundbreaking Ten (2002), and then witnessing her outstanding debut ...
Ten
2002
as Amin
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
I Look Like My Mother
N/A
Director
I Look Like My Mother follows Amina Maher’s courageous journey to free herself from the constraints of norms, taboos and traditions. Her coming-out as...