Iranian filmmaker Maryam Shahriar was born in Tehran in 1966. She has spent much time outside of Iran, studying filmmaking in California during the 1980s and later graduating in Italian Culture and History from the American University of Rome. She remained in Italy to work as an assistant and editor, also producing several short films. Her first feature, "Daughters of the Sun" (2002), tells the story of Amangol, whose father shaves her head, dresses her as a boy, and sends her far away to appren
...tice in a carpet workshop in order to support his poor family.
Maryam Shahriar (مریم شهریار) has been a Director in some movies:
