Anisa Sabiri
- Writer
- Director
Anisa Sabiri is a London-based self-taught filmmaker from Tajikistan, focused on concepts of identity and memory, and a search for an indigenous Central Asian language in cinema.
For several years, she worked as a tour guide in the Pamir mountains while building her profile as an avant-garde novelist, photographer and activist, before making her shorts Nolai Tanbur / The Crying of Tanbur (2018) and Az Alla To Vobalam / Rhythms of Lost Time (2021), featured at the Busan International Film Festival, Dokumenta-15, BOZAR, Asian Film Archive and other platforms and festivals worldwide.
Sabiri is also an active promoter of the horizontal-based network in Central Asian art and education. She has been guest lecturing and running workshops for filmmakers with the University of Central Asia, Open Society, Internews, the Institute for War and Peace, and was a speaker at international platforms and events associated with European Film Market, UNESCO, TED Mastercard, Basel Peace Forum.
Her film projects in development were featured at Berlinale, Ji.hlava International Film Festival, Sheffield IFF, CineDoc Tbilisi, and goEast East-West Talent Lab, among others.
She 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 Doc Toolbox-23, and the Sheffield Future Producers School. She is a member of Directors UK and the Documentary Association of Europe.