DIRECTORS

Hélène Rastegar is a screenwriter and director, co‑founder of « Chacun Son Court », a short film festival she created during and ran for five years before joining the writing residency at Ardèche Images in Lussas. Trained to shoot and develop Super 8 and 16 mm, she moves between digital and analog formats, exploring fiction, documentary, and experimental cinema—often through independent or collaborative projects. Her work is shaped by a dual Iranian heritage, constantly evolving, and inhabited by women whose bodies carry the tension of inner battles: to endure, to speak, to exist.

Hélène is a Berlinale Talents and IDFAcademy alumna, laureate of the Institut de l’Engagement, and recipient of the Copernicus Prize for Dialogue and Peace.