Azar Saiyar
Directing
Azar Saiyar is Helsinki-based filmmaker and visual artist. She often uses archive materials and plays with images and words of collective memory to look towards ways of looking, speaking, remembering and telling stories. She also does collaborative works with other artists. Her films have been screened at international film and media art festivals, galleries, exhibitions, museum and television.
Known for
Behind the camera8
- 2023Solar Book Director
- 2022My Home Director
- 2021Laila’s Apple Director
- 2019Tell Me Editor, Director, Writer, Producer
- 2018Monument of Distance Director
- 2016History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails Director
- 2014Primus Tempus Director
- 2009Helsinki–Tehran Director