A theatre director, dramatist and screenwriter, Nasim Ahmadpour co-founded the theatre group Don Quixote in Tehran in 2003, for which she’s written and/or directed eight plays. In 2018, she won the award for best playwright at Tehran’s TIFF. Ahmadpour has co-written five short films as well as scripts for feature films, together with Shahram Mokri. Fish & Cat and Careless Crime were screened at the 2014 and 2020 Venice Film Festival, respectively, and Invasion was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018. The screenplay for Careless Crime was nominated for an award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival and won the Bisato d’Oro Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. Ahmadpour’s latest screenplays are A Fleeting Encounter, which premiered at the Luxembourg Film Festival, and Where is Ava?, directed by Romed Wyder, which is currently in pre-production. Her most recent play The Report on the Judgment Day was written and performed in a private underground hall in Tehran, and the performance text was presented at the Performa Biennale in New York in 2023.