Maryam Ghiasi is an Iranian filmmaker, screenwriter, and visual-video artist based in Paris. Her work lingers on the subtle resonance of fleeting moments, the quiet unrest of a place, the imperceptible loss of time, or the echoes of social undercurrents. These impressions often appear on screen as lightly as a blink: brief, delicate, yet deeply affecting.

Her films emerge from a sharp attentiveness to the ordinary. Nature is not a backdrop but an organic extension of her frame. Through minimal lighting, silence, and texture, the natural world carries the weight of presence.

Before cinema, Maryam’s roots were in literature and poetry, sensibilities that continue to shape her visual language. Stillness and silence in her work are never empty pauses; they are spaces rich with ambiguity. Her characters remain intentionally opaque, resisting fixed interpretation and instead inviting audiences to dwell within uncertainty.
Maryam studied Visual Effects at the Tehran Institute of Technology (a comprehensive four-year program) and later trained in screenwriting under acclaimed filmmakers Asghar Farhadi and Shadmehr Rastin. In 2012, she co-founded a creative film and advertising studio, which continues to thrive.

Her short films The Home Which I Loved and Stain have been screened at international film festivals, establishing her distinctive voice. Since 2021, she has collaborated with animation director Houman Tehrani Sharif as scriptwriter and artistic advisor on A Shadowy Store, a 2D animation completed in 2024.

Parallel to her cinematic work, Maryam has developed a strong interdisciplinary practice with choreographer and dancer Alireza Mirmohammadi. Their collaboration began with the solo performance Lullaby, developed through residencies at Workspace Brussels, PACT Zollverein, and the Camargo Foundation, and co-produced by Charleroi Danse.

In 2023, they co-founded Bon Art Studio, “Bon” means “roots” in Farsi, a hub dedicated to the fusion of image and movement. Their first major joint project, Mangle, embodies this vision as an interdisciplinary work supported by institutions including Théâtre National de la Danse–Chaillot, Cité Internationale des Arts, Le CND, Akademie Schloss Solitude, PACT Zollverein, the Fiminco Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, and Charleroi Danse as co-producer.

Currently, she is developing her first feature-length screenplay, The Architecture of a Relationship, while continuing to expand Bon Art Studio’s projects.