Mahsa Foroughi
Mahsa Foroughi is a poet, screenwriter, researcher, film educator, and Director of Postgraduate Film Programs at BIMM University and MetFilm School. Her journey has traversed architecture, poetry, and cinema, yet throughout these years writing has remained the hidden thread connecting her life and thought, a thread woven through memory, the body, space, narrative, and lived experience, ultimately shaping her distinctive voice. For more than twenty-four years, she has been writing poetry and fiction. For her, writing is not merely a form of expression but a way of seeing, enduring, and reimagining the world.
Her doctoral research focused on the intersections of cinema, poetry, and philosophy. During her years of teaching at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, she designed and led interdisciplinary courses and projects exploring the relationship between image, space, and human experience, an experience understood not only as visual, but also as sensory, emotional, and temporal. Along this trajectory, her work expanded into film theory and the poetic possibilities of cinema, particularly through her engagement with the notion of poetic historiographies of film, where the language of poetry extends beyond words and continues through image, rhythm, time, and movement.
Years after completing her PhD, and in pursuit of a deeper engagement with storytelling, she returned to university to earn a second master’s degree in screenwriting. The selection of one of her screenplays for development in Berlin brought her from Sydney to Berlin, opening a new horizon in her creative practice, one in which poetry, thought, and image became more closely intertwined than ever before.
In Berlin, Foroughi expanded her artistic practice into video art, exhibiting works in respected galleries and exhibitions supported by the Goethe-Institut. Today, alongside her collaborations with filmmakers in Germany and Australia, she continues to regard poetry as one of the most authentic refuges of thought and creation, a place where language, memory, the body, image, and time once again converge.
