Anisa Sabiri is a London-based artist and filmmaker from Tajikistan. She works with fiction and non-fiction, using poetic storytelling, fragmentation and speculation. Her research, ‘The Islamicate Epistemological Principles of Worldbuilding in Cinema Storytelling’, is centred on making a feature film and developing decolonial storytelling strategies rooted in Persianate and Islamicate epistemologies, and is supervised by Dr Özlem Köksal and Prof.Joshua Oppenheimer.

With a background in poetry, Anisa received the Tajik National Award in Literature at the age of 23. In 2019, she was awarded a fully funded UK government scholarship to undertake an MA in Screenwriting at the London Film School, where she completed her studies in 2021 with the Outstanding Screenwriting Award supported by the Final Draft. She has screened her films internationally at institutions and festivals including the ICA (UK), LUX Centre (UK), 79th Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland), Busan International Film Festival (South Korea), Venice Biennale (Italy), documenta 15 (Germany), BOZAR (Belgium) and the Asian Film Archive (Singapore). She is a recipient of the Arts Council England DYCP Award and is an alumna of the Locarno Factory (25/26), CHANEL & BAFA Asian Film Academy (2023) and Berlinale EFM Toolbox (2023).