Anisa Sabiri

Anisa Sabiri is a Tajik filmmaker based in London.
She is focused on concepts of memory and identity.
She worked as a tour guide in the Tajik mountains while building her profile as an avant-garde novelist and photographer, before making her shorts The Crying of Tanbur and Rhythms of Lost Time, featured at the Busan International Film Festival, Dokumenta-15, BOZAR, Asian Film Archive and other platforms worldwide.
Sabiri is an educator and an active promoter of indigenous Central Asian cinema. She has been guest lecturing and running workshops for filmmakers with international institutions all across Eurasia and is a speaker at international platforms and events associated with the EFM, UNESCO, PEN, TED Mastercard and Royal Society for Asian Affairs.
Her projects in development were featured at Berlinale, Ji.hlava International Film Festival, Sheffield IFF, CineDoc Tbilisi, and goEast East-West Talent Lab, among others.
Aisa holds an MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School with the support of the UK-government CHEVENING Scholarship, from which she graduated with the Outstanding Screenwriting Award in 2021. She is an alumna of the Busan Asian Film Academy, EFM Toolbox-23, and the Sheffield Future Producers School. She is a member of Directors UK and the Documentary Association of Europe.