EDUCATION
• 2013-2015 : Master in Filmmaking, KASK School of arts, Gent
• 2011-2013 : Master in Transmedia, Luca school of arts, Brussels
• 2009-2011 : Master of Fine arts, Umea academy of fine arts, Umea, Sweden
• 2002-2006 : Bachelor in Architecture, Azad university of
Tehran,Tehran, Iran
FILMOGRAPHY
• 2015: Ayan and the white balloon – (Director, Camera, Editing)
– DOK Leipzig, 58th International LEIPZIG Festival for
documentary and animated film, Leipzig, Germany, World premiere, Novembre 2015
– Millenium festival international du documentaire, Brussels, Belgium, March 2016
– Festival L’inconnu, Paris, France, 7 April 2015
– FEST: New directors, New films festival, Espinho, Portugal,
20-26 June 2016
-The 34th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany, November 2016
• 2011: My fingers grew and stuck to the asphalt – (Director, Camera, Editing)
– 14e Festival des cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (cjc), Paris, France, 2012
– Festival international « Signes de Nuit », 2012
ARTISTIC PATHS & EXHIBITIONS
•« Cache Cache», Molenbeek Academy of fine arts, Brussels, 9-31 May 2018
•« MOOOV», Expo de photographie, MOOOV festival, Brugge, Turnhout, April 2018
•« Symposium Film, Art and Exile by Noncitizen», film projection & lecture, Stockholm , Sweden, 1&2 december 2018
•« L’art du mouvement perpétuel », BRASS, Brussels,16-19 March 2017
•« My childhood rituals», Solo exhibition, Art-base gallery, Brussels, 2016
•« Expo en vitrine », Le Coin du diable, January 2016, Brussels
•« Auto-censorship », Solo exhibition, Centre culturel Estación Mapocho, Santiago, Chili, 2013
•« Auto-censorship », Solo exhibition, Estación Cielo Abierto, Valparaiso, Chili, 2013
•« Let it be » ,Solo exhibition, Galerie Arielle d’Hauterives, Brussels, 2012
•« Green », Collaboration a democratic organisation,Södra, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011
•« Double ID », Solo exhibition, Librairie/Galerie Ouvrir L’œil, Lyon, France, 2011
•« 3///3…three walls on Wednesdays… », in collaboration with Blanka Amezkua in the public areas in Athen (Grèce), 2011
•« Transition», Group exhibition, Galerie Art base (Brussels), January 2011,
•«Group expo », Galerie Andersson Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Suède, 2011
•« My city », drawing biennale, Imam Ali Museum, Tehran, Iran, 2011
•« Group expo », WIP Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010
•« UMEA Group exhibition », Fine art academy of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden, 2010
•« Group expo », Drawing exhibition, Pardis cultural center, Tehran, Iran, 2009
•« Art Expo», collective exhibition, Tehran, Iran, 2009
•« Eating our brain», Solo exhibition, video installation , Mehrin Art Gallery, Téhéran, Iran, 2008
WORKSHOPS :
• Video/Storytelling workshop organised for newcomers and refugees in Belgium, Pianofabriek cultural center, September- December 2019
• Visual art workshop for children, Maison de la culture de Molenbeek, 2018-2019
• Urban cinéma (Ciclope collective project), animation workshop for Children, 16 March 2018
• Film documentary workshop, Memory Lab and Ciclope collective, GC De Kriekelaar , February and April 2018
• Two days workshop for children and adults, opening of Musée communal de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (MoMuse), 16 March 2018
• Flipbook and stop-motion workshop for children, 27 February- 3 Mars 2017, Maison de la culture de Molenbeek
• Video/Storytelling workshop organised for newcomers and refugees in Belgium, Pianofabriek cultural center, September- December 2015, 2016, 2017
• Theatre and body movement and expression workshop, organised for newcomers and refugees in Belgium, Pianofabriek cultural center, January and February 2017
CURATING:
Curating exhibitions in Art Base gallery:
•« « Il était une fois / Il n’était pas une fois»» , Yazdan Saadi, iranian artist, 22 April 2021
•« A jug of wine and nothing else » ,Azam Masoumzadeh, iranian artist, 23 January 2019
•« L’art brut d’iran» Zabihullah Mohammady, iranian outsider artist, 23 Mai 2019
•« Ma vie quotidienne», Solo exhibition of cuban artist, Ileana Morell, Art Base, 10 Janvier 2019
•« Les petites histoires», Solo exhibition of french artist, Catherine LeGoff, Art Base, 28 Septembre 2018
•« Colours», Solo exhibition of Iranian artist, Azarakhsh Farahani, Art Base, 2 May 2018
•« Lines», group exhibition , Art Base, 7 March 2018
•« Genesis», Solo exhibition of Iranian artist, Mostafa Kazemi Motlagh , Art Base, 17 october, 2017
•« In my forest, there are», Solo exhibition of South Korean artist, Choi Juhyun , Art Base,26 April, 2017
•« Exile At Home », collective drawing exhibition, from 21 novembre 2015 to 6 December 2015 in galerie Art Base (Brussels), Iranian drawings with the theme of exile
•« L’acte de résistance » , collective drawing exhibition, from 19 to 29 January 2015, Pianofabriek (Saint-Gilles)
•« Exile Filmfestivalen », Film Festival, from 9 to 14 February 2016 in Malmö , Sweden
PRIZE
•2020 Le prix offert par Chocolat Noisette, Ma vie en Papier, Festival Millenium •2020 Bourse Orange Belgium x SACD x pour les femmes réalisatrices en Belgique, (Ma vie en papier/ My paperlife)
•2020 VAF (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds), production, first long documentary film (Ma vie en papier/My paperlife )
•2017 VAF (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds), Scenario et development, first long documentary film (Ma vie en papier/My paperlife)
•2017 SCAM, Bourse de Brouillon d’un rêve
•2015 Residency in Pianofabriek (as a member of CICLOPE audiovisual collective)
•2012 Prix de la Biennale Internationale du Dessin Contemporain, Geyr Art Gallery, Namur, Belgique
•2012 Diplôme dʼexcellence du 14e Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France
•2011 Bourse Genom Kungel, Sweden
JURY
•Member of the international Jury of 2018, MOOOV film festival, Turnhout, Belgium
PRESS
•Demorgen, Affiche filmfestival MOOOV gemaakt door Vida Dena: ook Iraanse meisjes ‘just wanna have fun’, 2018 – By Robin Broos
•BRUZZ international,Vida Dena: ‘Ik voel me geen immigrant in Brussel’, 2017
• karoo.me/art-ko/vida-dena
• agirparlaculture.be/pellicules/cache-cache-vida-dena
COLLECTIVE
•Member of “Ciclope” multicultural collective that promotes art and culture in Brussels.
•Member of “Comment peut-on être persan?”.A collective based in Brussels to promote Persian culture and art.