Majlesi, Darya

I came to cinema through documentary, where my language began to take form in the encounter with the real. The movement between reality, imagination, and history mirrors how I experience the world as embodied, unstable, and deeply felt. Drawing from theatre and nonfiction practice, I work with memory, witnessing, and fragile images to explore how personal experience intersects with political and emotional landscapes. Filmmaking, for me, is not just an art form but a way of staying alive to the w…