
Rayka Zehtabchi
Directing
Born: 1994-01-01
Biography
Rayka Zehtabchi is an Oscar-winning Iranian-American director based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, Madaran, is an Iranian language short that won Jury awards at top film festivals and qualified for the 89th Academy Awards in 2016. She won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short at the 91st Academy Awards for Period. End of Sentence., a documentary about a group of village women in Northern India who start a sanitary pad-making business in an effort to improve feminine hygiene and de-stigma
๐ฌ Movies (13)

The Singers
2026
Executive Producer

The Old Young Crow
2023
Executive Producer

You Know Where to Find Me
2023
Producer

Long Line of Ladies
2022
Director

Are You Still There?
2021
Director

Ours to Tell
2020
Director

Just Hold On
2020
Director

A Woman's Place
2020
Director

(SHn(y)oอof)
2019
Director

Period. End of Sentence.
2018
Director

Mammoth
2018
Assistant Director

We Home
2018
Director

Madaran
2016
Director
