Mariam Ghani is a writer, director, editor, producer, archival researcher, and visual artist. Her short films, public projects, and multi-channel installations have been presented and collected worldwide, notably in Times Square and the new Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport; the Guggenheim, MoMA, Smithsonian, and Metropolitan Museums; Documenta 13 and the Liverpool, Lahore, Yinchuan, and Sharjah Biennials; and the Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, SFFILM, DOC NYC, and Ann Arbor film festivals, where she presented a juror's retrospective in 2022.

Ghani’s first feature, the critically acclaimed documentary WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED, tells the mostly true story of five unfinished Afghan Communist films. It premiered at the 2019 Berlinale, was released theatrically in the US, and had its streaming premiere on the Criterion Channel. It is distributed by Dekanalog, Good Docs, and Arsenal, and is currently streaming on Docuseek and Ovid. Her 2022 short THE FIRE THIS TIME was commissioned by Field of Vision and screened at BlackStar, BAMcinemaFest and Ji.hlava. Her second feature film, DIS-EASE, looks at the real consequences of how we fictionalize illness, and premiered at BlackStar and the Tate Modern in 2024. Ghani teaches film/video at Bennington College.