Sara Fattahi

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1983-01-01 (41 years old)

Place of Birth Syria

Sara Fattahi

Biography

Sara Fattahi, born in Damascus in 1983, studied Law at Damascus University and graduated at the Fine Art Institute in Damascus. Storyboard artist & animator for several channels such as Al Jazeera Kids and SpaceToon, as well as art director of soap-operas from 2003 to 2008. Since 2010, independent filmmaker and producer. Since 2014 collaborations in research and writing for independent short films. First short documentary 27 METERS in 2013. Fattahi’s first feature length documentary COMA was produced in 2015 and was granted the ‘Regard Neuf Award’ for the Best First Feature Film at Visions du Réel 2015, the FIPRESCI Award at the Viennale 2015, and has been screened at numerous festivals such as MoMA’s Doc fortnight 2016, Berlin Critics’ Week 2016, São Paulo 2016.

Known For

Director

2024
Somewhere to Be

as Director

2018
Chaos

as Director

2015
Coma

as Director

Crew

2018
Chaos

as Cinematography

Editor

2023
Anqa

as Editor