Past Future Continuous
Director
Firouzeh Khosrovani
Director
Firouzeh Khosrovani is an Iranian documentary filmmaker, born in Tehran.
She studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy, before returning to her homeland to complete a master’s degree in journalism. She made her debut as a filmmaker with the short documentary Life Train (2004), and achieved acclaim for Rough Cut (2007), about the role of women in Iran.
She won the IDFA Grand Prize for Radiograph of a Family (2020), and won another award for Past Future Continuous (2025), co-directed with Morteza Ahmadvand.
Contemporary Iranian history, identity, politics – and identity politics – are recurring themes in her work.