Faezeh Nikoozad was born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran. There in 2005 she made her BA degree in Film and costume design. She already worked as costume designer and assistant director. Since 2009 she lives in Germany. She studied Film at the HFBK Hamburg. Her short films were shown on international film festivals and awarded, for example with the sponsorship award of the Heitland Foundation. Her graduation film Missed Embrace ran on the 16th documentary film week in Hamburg.