Biography
Sarvnaz Alambeigi was born in 1978 in Tehran, Iran, and graduated in Art & Architecture from Azad University in Tehran. After receiving a bachelor's degree in painting, she was mainly active in the field of fine arts from 2000. Her paintings and pictures have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Iran. In 2013, Alambeigi began working for the newly established film department of the Iranian company Rabison Art Production. She made her directorial debut with the short documentary "Otagh E Dovvom" ("The Second Room," IR 2014), a portrait of an Iranian trans person trying to communicate her new identity to her suspicious environment.
Alambeigi's feature-length documentary "Tomorrowland" (2017), about a Tehran DJ who goes to Turkey to look for work because of restrictions in his homeland, screened at several international festivals. In the half-hour long "Cypher and Lion" (2017), Alambeigi looked at Iran's ancient history of sculpture, an art that was forbidden for centuries according to a strict interpretation of Islam. At Munich's DOK.fest 2022, Sarvnaz Alambeigi's second feature-length documentary premiered: the German co-production "1001 Nights Apart" uses an Iranian and an exiled Iranian ballet group to show the gap that opened up between Iranians and exiled Iranians after the 1979 revolution. The film won the VFF Documentary Production Award in Munich; it was released in July 2022.