ABOUT
Rita Rahimi
FILM DIRECTOR · VISUAL ARTIST · CREATOR OF FANA
The world keeps falling apart. Rita keeps creating.
Rita Rahimi is a nonbinary Iranian film director and visual artist based in Armenia. She completed FANA: Back in a Sec independently amid severe internet disruptions in Iran.
- 2026 · YEREVAN
- FANA: Back in a Sec premiered at the 9th Yerevan International Short Film Festival.
- 2024 · TEHRAN
- FANA: Solo Exhibition at Shamis Gallery.
- 2019 · GRAPHIC NOVEL
- FANA: A Maple in Flames · 150 pages, drawn by hand.
- 500+ STUDENTS · INVERSE SCHOOL
- AI filmmaking taught through practical cinematic production workflows.
Through it all, one thing has remained constant: an unstoppable urge to draw, invent characters, tell stories, and bring impossible worlds to life.
Her worlds can be violent, heartbreaking, ridiculous, and strangely beautiful.
The goal has never been the image alone. It's the person inside the frame.
First came the pencil.
Long before generative AI, Rita was creating worlds by hand.
Her practice spans drawing, illustration, comics, animation, gallery exhibitions, and live-action filmmaking.
Her visual art isn't a chapter she left behind.
It's the foundation of everything she makes.
AI lets her build, at cinematic scale, the worlds she has always drawn.
Beautiful worlds. Beautifully flawed people.
A fearless rebel who runs from intimacy. A perfect citizen the system has forgotten. Three elderly villagers playing heavy metal. These are some of the characters inhabiting FANA, Rita's expanding universe of stories born from personal experience, political absurdity, dark humor, and an insatiable curiosity about being human.
An artist's imagination. A director's discipline.
Her work spans character design, visual development, animation, editing, sound design, and final post-production.
She teaches character development, animation, editing, and integrated AI filmmaking workflows at Inverse Online School
She is developing original FANA films and welcomes directing collaborations on narrative films, music videos, and proof-of-concept productions.
What could we make together?