Lana Askari

Lana Askari

Biography

Lana Askari holds a BA in Liberal Arts & Sciences from University College Utrecht, and an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include museum- and visual anthropology, trauma and memory, post-conflict regions, Kurdish diaspora and the anthropology of death. Trained as a documentary filmmaker through the MA programme at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, she recently commenced her PhD at the University of Manchester on Kurdish returnees in Iraqi Kurdistan.

AntropoFEST

Director

Screenwriter

Camerawoman

Editor

Documentaries
2020

Talamanca

Short
2016

Bridge to Kobane