Anna Fahr
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Anna Fahr is an award-winning filmmaker whose work focuses on the contemporary Middle East and diaspora.
In 2020, she directed and produced two interactive web-documentaries that focus on experiences of exile and migration through a female lens. Migrant Mothers of Syria premiered among a select group of VR, AR and interactive projects at Doc Edge Festival in New Zealand and went on to win several awards internationally, including 'Best Digital Media' at the Yorkton Film Festival and 'Best Documentary' at Webfest Berlin. Her follow up web-doc, My Life in Limbo premiered at Montréal Digital Web Fest where it won the festival's Jury Prize.
Anna's last narrative short, Transit Game (2014), examines the refugee crisis in Lebanon against the backdrop of the Syrian war. The film screened in 50+ international festivals, winning awards in Berlin, Florence and San Francisco in addition to winning a Golden Sheaf Award for 'Best Drama' at the Yorkton Film Festival in Canada.
In 2006, Anna independently produced/directed/edited the feature-length documentary, Khaneh Ma: These Places We Call Home, which examines questions of cultural identity from the vantage point of three generations of Iranians living in Iran, Canada, and Germany. The film screened theatrically at the National Film Board of Canada cinema in Montreal and in festivals worldwide.
Anna's debut narrative feature, Valley of Exile, will premiere in 2023.
In 2020, she directed and produced two interactive web-documentaries that focus on experiences of exile and migration through a female lens. Migrant Mothers of Syria premiered among a select group of VR, AR and interactive projects at Doc Edge Festival in New Zealand and went on to win several awards internationally, including 'Best Digital Media' at the Yorkton Film Festival and 'Best Documentary' at Webfest Berlin. Her follow up web-doc, My Life in Limbo premiered at Montréal Digital Web Fest where it won the festival's Jury Prize.
Anna's last narrative short, Transit Game (2014), examines the refugee crisis in Lebanon against the backdrop of the Syrian war. The film screened in 50+ international festivals, winning awards in Berlin, Florence and San Francisco in addition to winning a Golden Sheaf Award for 'Best Drama' at the Yorkton Film Festival in Canada.
In 2006, Anna independently produced/directed/edited the feature-length documentary, Khaneh Ma: These Places We Call Home, which examines questions of cultural identity from the vantage point of three generations of Iranians living in Iran, Canada, and Germany. The film screened theatrically at the National Film Board of Canada cinema in Montreal and in festivals worldwide.
Anna's debut narrative feature, Valley of Exile, will premiere in 2023.