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films
A departure
Minevissam (I am writing)
... - then love is the name
The Sparrow is Free
Albalo
Just Another Year
past projects/exhibitions
Bow Open
Minevissim (We are writing) - LUX Moving Image
Resistant materials - Cubitt
In a world, not so different from ours - RIVA
The Birds, the Ladder, the Painter and their songs - Greatorex St.
Shahre Farang
ongoing
Archéologies - Fondation Dar Bellarj
Cinema Noun
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about
cv
films
A departure
Minevissam (I am writing)
... - then love is the name
The Sparrow is Free
Albalo
Just Another Year
past projects/exhibitions
Bow Open
Minevissim (We are writing) - LUX Moving Image
Resistant materials - Cubitt
In a world, not so different from ours - RIVA
The Birds, the Ladder, the Painter and their songs - Greatorex St.
Shahre Farang
ongoing
Archéologies - Fondation Dar Bellarj
Cinema Noun
contact
For vimeo links, screenings and other inquiries please email.
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cv
films
A departure
Minevissam (I am writing)
... - then love is the name
The Sparrow is Free
Albalo
Just Another Year
past projects/exhibitions
Bow Open
Minevissim (We are writing) - LUX Moving Image
Resistant materials - Cubitt
In a world, not so different from ours - RIVA
The Birds, the Ladder, the Painter and their songs - Greatorex St.
Shahre Farang
ongoing
Archéologies - Fondation Dar Bellarj
Cinema Noun
contact
For vimeo links, screenings and other inquiries please email.
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Minevissam (I am writing)
2023, 18’ - 16mm & super 8 to digital.
Minevissam maps the journeys of various characters, whose pasts continue to echo through other times and places. As they search for better words and worlds, a poet, a painter and an owl attempt to translate their tales for and with each other.
and the daughter began to tell a story
about seeing when colours remain silent to you
about listening, when words refuse blooming anew
With Sanam Monteiro, Leila Monteiro & the voices/writings of Mitra Rezaei, Jamshid Kohandel assisted by Marie-Hélène Le Ny, Mina T. Azar, Mona
Camera: Niki Kohandel, Nia Fekri, Amadou Barry
Music score: Hal H. Lewis
Editing: Niki Kohandel
Film scan: On8Mil & Andrew Northrop Made after Anju by Annabel Nicholson
2023, 18’ - 16mm & super 8 to digital.
Minevissam maps the journeys of various characters, whose pasts continue to echo through other times and places. As they search for better words and worlds, a poet, a painter and an owl attempt to translate their tales for and with each other.
and the daughter began to tell a story
about seeing when colours remain silent to you
about listening, when words refuse blooming anew
With Sanam Monteiro, Leila Monteiro & the voices/writings of Mitra Rezaei, Jamshid Kohandel assisted by Marie-Hélène Le Ny, Mina T. Azar, Mona
Camera: Niki Kohandel, Nia Fekri, Amadou Barry
Music score: Hal H. Lewis
Editing: Niki Kohandel
Film scan: On8Mil & Andrew Northrop Made after Anju by Annabel Nicholson
Selected screenings:
3rd March 2026, ‘backseat dreaming’, Film Diary NYC @ Millenium Film Workshop.
8th December 2025, Swedenborg Film Festival, Curzon Soho, London.
12th September - 2nd November 2025, ‘Niki Kohandel: (We are writing) مينويسم’, LUX Moving Image, London.
8th May 2025, LE18 Marrakech, in conversation with Ines Yahiaoui.
7th December 2024, ‘Harkat 16mm Film Festival’, Mumbai.
17th August 2024, Art Station Samarkand, ‘Janub Shamoli Festival’ by maqaal collective, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
24th + 25th July 2024, Lago Film Fest ‘Princìpî Award’, Revine Lago, Italy.
3rd July 2024, ‘On Listening’, three short films by Niki Kohandel at Other Cinemas, Metroland Studios, London.
28th April 2024, Open City Documentary Festival,‘Combined programme: I am writing’ at Genesis Cinema London. Accompanied by ‘Intimate Inscriptions, four films on writing’, text by Hannah Bonner.
14th October 2023, BFI London Film Festival, ‘Everything worthwile is done with other people’ at ICA London (world premiere).