Sanaz Sohrabi
Sanaz Sohrabi is an artist, researcher, and Assistant Professor (Concordia University, Montréal) working through essay film and installation. Her research explores the political economy of photography, archival technologies, and the visual history of resource extraction in Iran. She is the director of a trilogy of essay films on oil, culminating with An Incomplete Calendar (World Premiere, Cinéma du Réel 2026).
Sohrabi’s work has been screened and exhibited internationally at Berlinale Forum Expanded, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Cinema Vérité–Iran International Documentary Film Festival, DocLisboa (Lisbon), Valdivia International Film Festival (Chile), Mimesis Documentary Festival (Boulder), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Montréal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), Sheffield DocFest, Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel), VIDEONALE.16 (Bonn), Videoex (Zurich), FIDBA–International Documentary Film Festival (Buenos Aires), among others. Sohrabi’s recent exhibitions include MOMENTA Contemporary Art Biennal (Montréal), VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine (Montréal), Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Centre Clark (Montréal), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), and Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City). [Source: VOX, 2026]
