Susan GORDANSHEKAN

Susan Gordanshekan (born in 1978) is a German filmmaker of Iranian origins. She first studied Communication Design in Germany and France (specializing in video and multimedia-design), but in the course of her studies she realized that her real passion was to make movies. After working for a North German TV Station and a film production company in Berlin, she decided to study film at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Over the years, she has made several documentaries and two short fiction films. Notably, her documentary Garçons manqués and the short fiction Eisblumen were screened at numerous films festivals worldwide. Eisblumen premiered at 61. Berlinale in the Section Perspektive Deutsches Kino. Susan is currently developing her first feature project Defective Cat, which is about an Iranian couple who decide to marry after a few conversations, each for personal reasons – a story about the impossibility of buying happiness and the chance of find it regardless.

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