About

Born and raised in Iran, Fou is a New York–based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between worlds , between memory and imagination, the personal and the political. For over a decade, she has lived inside cinema, exploring its many languages as an actor, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, and director.

A graduate of The New School’s Media Studies program, Fou brings both craft and contemplation to her work, weaving her lived experience into visual stories that feel at once intimate and universal. Her thesis film, Night of Melancholia , a poetic political drama inspired by the Woman, Life, Freedom movement , reflects her fascination with loss, memory, and the quiet persistence of truth.

Through her lens, cinema becomes a space of remembrance and resistance — a way to hold on to what cannot be forgotten. Her films linger where emotion meets light, where every frame becomes a question, and every story, a small act of freedom.