WRITER & DIRECTOR

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Elahe is an MA alumna in directing at National Film and Television School, UK.

She was ranked 1st on the university entrance exams (Konkour) and did her BA in film at Tehran University of Art.

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Elahe’s first film was her BA graduation film, a short doc titled "The Doll". It is awarded as Best International Short at Hot Docs 2021 and nominated/selected for prestigious awards like International Documentary Association(IDA), Critics Choice Awards, Student Academy Awards, One World Media Award as well as prestigious festivals include more that 10 Oscar qualifying festivals such as Full Frame Documentary FF, Atlanta FF, Athens IFVF, Kerala IDSFFK well as tens of other International festivals like Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival. (Overall more than 50 festivals)

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Her second documentary "Can I Hug You?" was world premiered at the International Short Competition at Sheffield Doc Fest, Jun 2023. It won the award for best short documentary at SIMA awards. It also won the IDA ACI award, One World Media best short doc award, and more.

It is acquired by the DW Germany channel.

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"A Move" won the best short award by the youth jury in Visions du Reel, and the best international doc at Huesca IFF which qualified it for a 2025 Academy award.

It also Premiered/premiering at IDFA, Telluride FF, BFI London FF, Doc NYC, Dok Leipzig, DMZ Docs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, PÖFF, and more.

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"Shadow", her NFTS gradfilm and Elahe's debut fiction short also premiered at Academy Award qualifying festivals such as Cleveland International Film Festival, ShortShorts Film Festival & Asia, and Bronzelens Film Festival. 

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