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Sepideh Farsi was born in Tehran in 1965 but left Iran in 1980 and went to Paris in 1984 to study mathematics. However, she was drawn to the visual arts and experimented with photography before making her first short films. Her first two features Dreams of Dust and The Gaze premiered at Rotterdam in 2006. Farsi was a Member of the Locarno International Film Festival Jury in Best First Feature in 2009. She won the FIPRESCI Prize (2002), Cinéma du Réel, and Traces de Vie prize (2001) for Homi D. Sethna, Filmmaker, and Best Documentary prize in Festival dei Popoli (2007) for Harat.