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Born in Iran in 1984. After graduating from high school in 2001, she began studying feature film directing at the Tehran Film Academy. In 2009, her application for political asylum attracted international attention due to her being the daughter of the highest-ranking cultural advisor to the then Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Narges has since been granted asylum in Germany, where she studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. She made video installations, short films and the feature “In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran” (2019), presented at the Visions du Réel. “Shahid” is her second feature.