ZAR AMIR is an award-winning Iranian-French actress, producer and director.

She rose to international prominence for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in Ali Abbasi’s crime thriller HOLY SPIDER, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and Robert Award for Best Actress.

In 2023, she starred in Noora Niasari’s SHAYDA, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was selected as the Australian entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 2024 Academy Awards.

TATAMI, which she co-directed alongside Guy Nattiv, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Amir Ebrahimi is also a founder of Alambic Production, and in 2022, she appeared on BBC’s 100 Women list as one of the world’s inspiring and influential women of the year.