Hoda Sobhani
Hoda Sobhani was born and raised in Iran and she works as a filmmaker and theatre director. She got her BA in theater Art in University of Tehran and her MFA in Social Documentation at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Hoda intends to continue her work as a filmmaker to document women’s issues, especially immigrant women from the middle east.
Futility Season (2022) is an attempt to revive a friendship that has faded away due to circumstances that imprisoned one and forced the other to emigrate. Neda, who lives in Iran, spent her thirtieth birthday in prison, and Hoda, the film director began her thirties in a new country as an immigrant.