Sadaf Ahmadi (b. 1985) is a multidisciplinary Iranian-Swedish artist educated in Tehran at Sooreh art university and Karnameh Institute of Arts and Culture, under the mentorship of Abbas Kiarostami.
After having worked for 16 years in Iranian cinema, as a director, assistant director and actor, Sadaf Ahmadi moved to Sweden in 2020 and is now based in the city of Borås. Her artworks focus on themes concerning freedom of speech and the situation for women and dissidents in her native Iran.
Solo exhibitions
Concrete Setting, Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden 2023
OpenArt, Örebro, Sweden 2024
Concrete, La maison des chapitres, Forcalquier, France
2022Concrete Setting, Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden 2023
Concrete, La Maison des Chapitres, Forcalquier, France 2022
Group exhibitions
Femme Vie Liberte, Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris, France 2023
Films
The smoky, documentary, Sweden-Norway 2021 (director)
Chance Only Knock Once! It’s a Lie, short, Iran 2008 (director)
One day of these days, short, Germany 2007 (director)
Up Down Middle Left Right, short, Iran 2007 (director)
Football Under Cover, documentary, Iran 2007 (assistant director)
Write My Story, tv movie, Iran 2007 (assistant director)
Bullshits, short, Iran 2005 (director and actor)
Enjoy If You Can!, short, Iran 2006 (director)
Camera, Sidewalk, documentary, Iran 2006 (assistant director)
1385, short, Iran 2006 (director)
Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, short, Iran
2006 (director)
Now Eat, short, Iran 2005 (director)
The Forward’s Fear of the Penalty Kick, documentary, Iran 2005 (assistant director) Let It Be, short, Iran 2005 (assistant director)
Move It, short, Iran 2004 (assistant director)
Acting
The forgiveness trilogy movie, directed by Mohammad Bayesteh, Iran 2022
Rasht – Stadt der Frauen,Hau 3, Berlin 2011 Incomplete moon, directed by Pouria Jahanshad, Iran 2008 Incomplete Moon, short, Iran 2007
Tehran Forever, Iran 2007
It Can Be Without Name, short, directed by Kaveh Ghahreman, Iran 2006
Crow’s Childhood, short, directed by Kaveh Ghahreman, Iran 2005
Madmuazel, short, directed by Navid Fashami, Iran 2005
The Moments Before the Tragedy, Iran 2005
Ferdowsi, Saddam Hussein, and the Ants’ March in the Empty City, performance at House of artists, Fair theatre festival, 2005
Mama Is Dead, short, directed by Kaveh Ghahreman, Iran 2004
Shifteh Sholuq Shelakhteh, short, directed by Vahid Darabi, Iran 2004
A World That Its Predestination Is in My Hand, short, directed by Kaveh Ghahreman, Iran 2004 Just a Simple Day, short, Iran 2004
News from Tehran, Performance art, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts-Brussels, 2004 (Assistant director)
Awards
Experimental Movie Award from Invisible Cinema, USA 2013 for Bullshits, short, Iran 2005 Best Actress Award, Mr. Kimiayi Acting Academy, Tehran 2009
Best Actress Award, Nahal Short Film Festival, Tehran, for A World That Its Predestination Is in My Hand, short, directed by Kaveh Ghahreman, Iran 2004
Best Actress Award, Sayeh Short Film Festival, Tehran for Bullshits, short, Iran 2005
Artistic training
2010 Abbas Kiarostami’s course, Karnameh Art Institute, Tehran (one year) 2010
Tarokh’s Acting Academy, Tehran (one year)
2009
MA degree in cinema/directing, Sooreh University, Tehran (two years) 2007
Participated in Berlinale Talent Campus 2007
BA degree in cinema/directing, Sooreh University Tehran (four years)
Various:
Participating in Berlinale talent campus
Director
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear- Berlinale talentcampus 2007
Enjoy if you can! Short. 2006
1385. Short. 2006
Bullshit- short 2009- Iran
Up down middle left right. Short Iran 2007
One day of these days. Berlinale Talent campus/ garage studio 2007
“Rasht” ( documentary .2011)
“chance only knock once! It’s a lie” (short.2008)
“life.style” (documentary series .2016)
“No jan” ( documentary ,2017)
Bullshit
Additional Short movie bullshit 2009 got screened in “Chicago artillery “won the best experimental movie in the “invisible cinema” of Maryland
Actress
Sadaf Ahmadi as an actress participated in more than 40 shorts, fictions movies, Tv series and Performances in lran and Germany, yet most of them without hijab or islamic republic’s standards therefor, had to remain not introduced nore presented.
Mama is dead. Short. 2004
Shifteh sholuq shelakhteh. Short. 2004
Madmuazel. Short. 2005
let it be. Short. 2005
A world that its predestination is in my hand. Short.
Crow’s child hood. Short.
Just a simple day. Short.
It can be without name. Short. 2006
Incomplete moon. Short.( 2007 )
Tehran for ever. Fiction (2007)
Ashkan and the charming ring. fiction.(2007)
Par. short.(2007)
Next shift.fiction.tv movie.(2009)
Strangers. fiction.tv movie(2009)
Mono pop. short.(2009)
Walking on the lines.tv movie.(2009)
The eye. Fiction(2010)
In searching of a bride groom.tv movie(2010)
The question of an answer.(2011)
Friend of my friend. Unfinished .. fiction.(2011)
Black intelligence.tv series.(2012)
Summer and the Ineluctable apple.(2012)
Nobody spoke. short.(2012)
Haft sang.tv series.(2013)
Death formula fiction.tv movie.(2013)
Acrid fiction.(2011.the ensemble acting award from rom film festival2013)
Jumping from the low height. fiction.( Berlin Film Festival2014)
My home, yesterday ,today. documentary(2014)
All the things which is missed. short(2014)
performances …
Ferdowsi , Saddam Hussein, and the Ants’ March in the Empty City – Tehran Fajr Theatre Festival, 2005
The moments before the tragedy, 2005
“Lady Tehran” Germany 2009
“Rasht, city of women” berlin HAU 3 2010
The last short movie she took part in Iran was
“the forgiveness trilogy” by Mohammad Bayesteh 2020
First AD
The forward’s fear of the penalty kick. Documentary. 2005
Camera, Sidewalk Documentary. 2006.
Stranger .Fiction. 2007
Incomplete moon. Short. 2007
Football under cover. Documentary. 2007
Move it. Short. 2004
The forward’s fear of the penalty kick. Documentary. 2005
Camera , Sidewalk. Documentary. 2006.
Football under cover. Documentary. 2007.
Write my story. Fiction. 2007
Documentry in Sweden
She immigrated to Sweden in 2020 and one month after moving, she started a documentary about prospectors opening a crystal pocket in Norway, crystal mountains of Berglia which has 10 meter depth full of smokey quartz clusters. The movie post production finished at 2022 and the project is going to be continued in other pockets around Sweden and Norway.
