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Sudabeh Mortezai
Austro-Iranian filmmaker
Sudabeh Mortezai (born 1968), is an Austrian–Iranianfilmmaker and producer.[1] She is best known as the director of critically acclaimed films Macondo and Joy,[2] which won several awards at international film festivals.[3][4][5][6]
Personal life
She was born on 1968 in Ludwigsburg, Germany to Iranian parents.
She spent her childhood and youth in Vienna and Tehran.[1]
Career
She moved to Vienna and studied theater, film and media. Then she studied film at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles.
During this period, she made various short and documentary films including 2006 documentary Children of the Prophet. It focuses on Iranian mourning rituals for Imam Hossein, the Prophet Mohammad’s grandson.[7]
In 2009, she made Im Bazar der Gender which describes the widespread practice of temporary marriage in Shiite Islam.[