Maryam Shapoorian

Maryam Shapoorian began making films at 15, experimenting with 8mm formats and crafting voice-overs for short films. Her passion for cinema deepened at the Tehran University of Art, where hands-on experience with 16mm filmmaking at the Faculty of Cinema and Theatre laid the foundation for a lifelong commitment to storytelling. Over the years, she has engaged in a quiet dialogue with audiences through layered, fragmented, and sometimes unfinished ideas, shaped in the edit room. She is, in her own words, "an eternal editor." Her debut feature, Just Between Us, marks a significant shift - a film that balances observation and narration, and represents her first steps toward a new cinematic language for engaging with the world.