Finalist
Roya Rastegar
Roya Rastegar
Filmmaker
Roya Rastegar is an award-winning filmmaker whose credits include Gaga: Five Foot Two (Netflix), Cypher (Tribeca Grand Jury Prize), Venus as a Boy (Tribeca Audience Award), and more. She is a co-founder of the Iranian Diaspora Collective.
Roya Rastegar is an award-winning filmmaker whose credits include Gaga: Five Foot Two (Netflix), Cypher (Tribeca Grand Jury Prize), Venus as a Boy (Tribeca Audience Award), and more. She is a co-founder of the Iranian Diaspora Collective.
Documentary Feature
Exile of the Swans
Exile of the Swans
Seven dancers across Iran risk everything to sustain their creative practice. Trained in secret by an Iranian-American prima ballerina, they choreograph a collective vision of freedom. This magical realist, dance-driven documentary traces four generations reclaiming a stolen legacy.
Seven dancers across Iran risk everything to sustain their creative practice. Trained in secret by an Iranian-American prima ballerina, they choreograph a collective vision of freedom. This magical realist, dance-driven documentary traces four generations reclaiming a stolen legacy.
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