Neda Ahmadi

writer, director and animator

Iran / Germany

Inspired by the aesthetics and narrative style of east European animation as a child growing up in Iran, Neda makes films through paintings. She studied stage design for theatre in Tehran and later animation in the UK. Her passion for visual storytelling found tools through experimentation with different techniques and her interest shifted from mythology and folklore to sociopolitical issues. With her short animated documentary in development Stranger Than Home, she ventures into the realm of scriptwriting further.

HOMES – A CLIMATE ACTION (2023)

HIGHLIGHTING HOLOCAUST HERITAGE (2022)

I WANT TO STOP THIS SUFFERING: THE STORY OF U.F (2022)

UM RASGO NO ESPELHO (2021)

NED PUGH OF LLANYMYNECH (2021)

Neda Ahmadi

Stranger Than Home

in development

What does ‘home’ mean when your homeland is fraught with political and social challenges? How do you find belonging in a new country when the safety and freedom you’d assumed you’d have doesn’t belong to you? These questions are at the heart of Stranger Than Home. The film explores how the torment of Iranian society under an oppressive regime cast a heavy shadow on the life of the main character, an immigrant woman in Berlin. In an attempt to get close to her inner world, the film uses surrealistic elements to convey the character’s conflicted existence, torn between two places.