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news

  • ‘Headless Trees’ produced by nearby/film, SeriousFilm, Ladybirds Films and Alambic Production is selected in New Dawn’s final round of 2024
  • ‘City of Poets’ is shortlisted for Best short of the year at Short film Conference
  • ‘City of Poets’ is nominated as a candidate for European Film Award 2025 at Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
  • ‘City of Poets’ wins the Golden Calf for Best Short Documentary at The Netherlands Films Festival
  • ‘City of Poets’ is awarded for Best Short Documentary at Sole Luna Doc Films Festival
  • ‘City of Poets’ winner of Silver Lynx for Best Short Documentary at Fest-New Directors New Films Festival
  • ‘City of Poets’ winner of Documenta Madrid’s international Fugas award for innovation and a willingness to transcend standard boundaries
  • ‘City of Peots’ selected for Berlianle Shorts 2024
  • ‘City of Poets’ produced by nearby/film is selected by Nederlands Filmfonds for Onderzoek & Experiment
  • ‘Headless Trees’ produced by nearby/film & co-produced by SERIOUSFILM is selected by Nederlands Filmfonds for de Verbeelding-ontwikkeling
  • ‘Yet Another Leap Year’ is selected for IFFR 2022
  • Delighted to receive the generous support of Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, Tijl Fonds
  • ‘City of Poets’ receives the support of Vevam OCW subsidy
  • New film project ‘Yet Another Leap Year’ Supported by CBK Rotterdam
  • Closed Encounters- Hilton Artlab 21.12.2020/10.01.2021
  • Vrijplaats Residency – The New Wilderness
  • Art Stations of the Cross, 26.02-11.04.2020, Deventer/NL.
  • Some-Bodies, Narratives Around the Body, IIC, New Delhi, 14-19.12.2019
  • To The Sea A Lake Or Another River, Centar savremene umjetnosti Crne Gore, Podgorica/Montenegro, 08-31.10.2019
  • My newest film project ‘on earth’s crust’ (working title) is supported by Mondriaan Fonds
  • Show/no show, film screening, Filmhuis, Den Haag, 11.05.2019
  • Film screening, CZKD Belgrade, 19.04.2019
  • Videospritz Triestecontemporanea, 27.03.19, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste
  • Het Wilde Weten Open Studios 2019, Saturday 09.02.2019, 12-20 pm
  • Happy to be part of the 2019 Prix de Rome team of scouts!
  • on earth’s crust (working title) new film project produced by ‘near/by film’ supported by DKC Rotterdam
  • Disclosed # 17/ Sara Rajaei, “Agnès, Laura, Helena & the others”, 10.11.2018/ 8 pm- Stichting Het Wilde Weten
  • Started teaching at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), September 2018-January 2019
  • The Motel in the Well, screening in Belgrade/Serbia, 18.05.2018
  • A Composition in Blue, Red & Other Colours, IFFR 2018, Bright Future Shorts, 28 & 29.01.2018
  • Screening of The Motel in the Well, Podium OCW, 19 & 20.01.2018
  • The Motel in the Well, Off Screen November, Worm Rotterdam 16.11.17
  • Upcoming exhibition: To the sea, a lake or another river, Pogon Gallery, Zagreb/Croatia
  • Upcoming exhibition: Going Back to Forget, Tent Rotterdam 09.11.2017-14.01.2018
  • The Motel in the Well, Huong Ngo Art space, Hanoi/ Vietnam, 15-30.11.2017
  • The Motel in the Well, Festival prvih 2017, Zagreb/ Croatia
  • The Motel in the Well, Drava Art Biennial, Koprivnica/ Coatia 13-19.10.21017
  • Additional screening of ‘The Motel in the Well’, NFF, 25.09.2017
  • The Motel in the Well, NFF, Premier 23.09.17 & additional screening 25.09.17
  • ‘The Motel in the Well’ selected for 7 Days of Creation Art Festival, Pazin/Croatia
  • ‘The Motel in the Well’ selected for Nederlands Film Festival 2017
  • ‘The Motel in the Well’ selected for NEMAF (Seoul International New Media Festival) 2017
  • Interviews & Performance, Kosmische en aardse verkenningen, gallery Nouvelles Images, 17.06.2017, 15-17 hours
  • From an unknown destination to the rest of the world, HULU Split/ Croatia, 13-30.06.2017
  • ‘The Motel in the Well’ screening at Short film corner, Cannes Film Festival 25.05.2017
  • Kosmische en aardse verkenningen, Galerie Nouvelles Images, 13.05-24.06.2017
  • ‘1978 the 231st day’ screening at Radnička u ne/nastajanju, Galerija AŽ, Atelier Žitnjak, Zagreb/ Croatia 05.05.2017
  • ‘The Motel in the Well’ selected for 25 Slavonian Biennial, Borders of Visibility, Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek/Croatia 08.12.2016-28.02.2017
  • ‘In the gaze of Panoptes’, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen/ Norway 28.10-06.11.2016
  • (IN)Constancy Of Space/ struggle for identity, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 26.08-02.10.2016
  • ‘The Motel in the Well’ screening at Kino Grič, Zagreb/ Croatia 17.11.2016
  • ‘1978 the 231st day’ screening at (IN)Constancy Of Space/ side program, Cinema Europa, Zagreb/ Croatia.
  • ‘1978 the 231st day’ screening at (IN)Constancy Of Space, side program, Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek / Croatia.
  • Started Residency at Stiftelsen 3-14 & BEK, Bergen, Norway
  • Grant Kulturradet- Arts Council Norway
  • Saudade Noumenon Issuu Link
  • Saudade Noumenon, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka, 22.01-10.04.2016
  • Screening at Art-Kino, Rijeka, 05.04.2016
  • 5e Biënnale Moving Images / Inspired Video Art ‘Ecce Homo’ extended until 17.07.2015
  • Hoffnungen und andere albtraume, Kunstverein Schwerin, extended until 26.07.15
  • Route du Nord, 05-07.06.2015
  • 5e Biënnale Moving Images / Inspired Video Art ‘Ecce Homo’
  • Hoffnungen und andere albtraume, Kunstverein Schwerin, 25.04-14.06.2015
  • NACHSPIEL – Screenings, 12-15.02.15, Stiftelsen 3,14
  • ‘There was the dream and there was a memory connected with it’ at IFFR 2015
  • ‘Still life’ at 6th International Kinder Shortfilm Festival@masda
  • Layers deel 4: Oh & Ouch, Worm, Rotterdam
  • (IN)Constancy Of Space, The Ring Gallery, Zagreb, 24.09-12.10.2014
  • Artist talk at Het Wilde Weten
  • The picture-book without pictures in REALmag #2
  • Presentation of REALmag #2 at Worm
  • ‘1978 the 231st day’ at 13the T-mobile new horizons international film festival
  • ‘1978 the 231st day’ at Videoex 2013
  • ‘Still life’ selected for Mo&Friese KinderKurzFilmFestival Hamburg
  • ‘1978 the 231st day’ selected for IFFR 2013
  • 3 months residency at Be part
  • Grote Haagse Kunstkalender 2013
  • The weather in Milano, Studio Zeta 17-22.04.2012
  • Art Brussels, Video in the city 18-27.04.2012
  • Special screenings at Stiftelsen 314, 22.03.2012
  • The continuous ends connected to the beginnings, Stiftelsen 314, Bergen/Norway, 09.03-06.05.2012
  • ‘a leap year that started on a friday’ at Goshort 2012
  • Grote Kunst voor Kleine Mensen in Museum De Paviljoens, 25.03-20.05.2012
  • Etikete Tumacenja umjetnickog djela, Galerija PM/HDLU, Zagreb/Croatia, 09-15.01.2012
  • De Bonte Avond, Het Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam,16.12.2011
  • Video-salon 5 curatorial rebound project/ 2006-2011, Duplex10m2, Sarajevo, 05-15.11.2011
  • Opening Zelf, Villa Zebra, Rotterdam, 25.11.2011
  • Opening km 500 4, Kunsthalle Mainz, 26.11.11-15.01.12
  • Bucharest Int Experimantal Filmfestival 17-20.11.2011
  • SuikerZoetfilmfestival Schiedam, 17-20.11.2011
  • Premier of ‘big art for little people’, cinekid filmfestival 18.10.2011
  • Additional screening of ‘big art for little people’, ketelhuis 21.10.2011
  • Opening ‘Le siège de la mémoire’ Hopstreet gallery, Brussel 29.10.2011
  • NIMK new distribution collection
  • ‘Forever for a while’ in Bucharest international experimental film festival 2011
  • New article in Kontura magazine by Neva Lukic
  • Tale tell & retell
  • Nieuwe werelden van niks programmatie by Arno van Roosmalen
  • Invited to participate in project ‘Big art for little people’
  • ‘Shahrzad en de kunst van het herinneren’ by Robert Kluijver
  • ‘Where romanticism flirts with criticality’ by Didem Yazici
  • ‘We are nowhere and it is now’
© Sara Rajaei