Born in 1957, Shirin Neshat ( شیرین نشاط ) is an Iranian film director, producer, actress, writer, photographer and video artist who lives in New York City. She was brought up in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran before leaving Iran in the late 1970s to study art in Los Angeles and San Francisco where she completed her BA, MA and MFA. Influenced by the work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, she has directed several video/audio installations that have been showcased ...around the world. Though Neshat is most prominently known for her short films, she made her feature film directorial debut in 2009 with Women Without Men and won the Silver Lion and Unicef Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice Film Festival. In 2013, she was a member of the jury at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Shirin Neshat (شیرین نشاط) has been a Director in some movies:

Women without Men is about that Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship. In this film Shirin Neshat (شیرین نشاط) collaborates with Shabnam Tolouei (شبنم طلوعی), Mina Ghoreishi (مینا قریشی), Ahmad Hamed (احمد حامد), Pegah Ferydoni (پگاه فریدونی), Arita Shahrzad (آریتا شهرزاد), Shoja Azari (شجاع آذری), Bijan Daneshmand (بیژن دانشمند), Martin Gschlacht (مارتین گشلکت), Shahbaz Noshir (شهباز نوشیر), Saeed Oveysi (سعید اویسی), Philippe Bober (فیلیپ بابر), Jerome De Noirmont (جرمی د نویرمونت), Barbara Gladstone (باربارا گلدستون), Peter Hermann (پیتر هرمان), Barbara Habe (باربارا هاب), Oleg Kokhan (اولگ کوخان), Susanne Marian (سوزان ماریان), Heirich Mis (هیریچ میس), Erwin M. Schimdt (اروین ام. اشمیت), Andreas Schreitmuller (آندریاس شرایتمولر), Joerg E.Schweizer (جورج ای. شوازر), Holger Stern (هولگر استرن), Antonin Svoboda (آنتنین سوبودا), Bruno Wagner (برونو واگنر), Isabell Wiegand (ایزابل ویگند), George Cragg (جورج کرگ), Patrick Lambertz (پاتریک لمبرتز), Christof Schertenleib (کریستف شرتنلیب), Julia Wiedwald (جولیا ویدولد), Orsolya Toth (اورسولیا توث), Navid Navid (نوید نوید), Essa Zahir (عیسی زهیر), Tahmoures Tehrani (طهمورث تهرانی), Abbas Bakhtiari (عباس بختیاری), Mehdi Moinzadeh (مهدی معین زاده), Farhad Payar (فرهاد پایار), Shahrnoush Parsipour (شهرنوش پارسی پور), Mitra Zahedi (میترا زاهدی), Mina Azarian (مینا آذریان), Nader Farman (نادر فرمان), Youssef Nabil (یوسف نبیل), Natasha Chudyk (ناتاشا چودیک), Aziz Hattab (عزیز هتاب), Soussan Azarin (سوسن آذرین), Fadma Hammou Maadini (فادما همو معدنی), Fouad Saad Allah (فواد اسد الله), Khalid Elwadi (خالد الوادی), Steven Henry Madoff (استیون هنری مدوف), Ryuichi Sakamoto (ریویچی ساکاموتو)

Turbulent is about that On one wall, a singer delivers a passionate love song to a group of men. He is faced away from his audience, secure that his performance will be accepted and adored. On the opposite wall, a woman in a black chador stands silently throughout his song. Then something stunning happens… In this film Shirin Neshat (شیرین نشاط) collaborates with Bahman Soltani (بهمن سلطانی), Ghasem Ebrahimian (قاسم ابراهیمان), Shoja Azari (شجاع آذری)