# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amina-maher
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:50:39.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amina-maher"
name: "Amina Maher"
slug: "amina-maher"
description: "Amina Maher is an Iranian-born queer feminist artist, activist, actress, and filmmaker living in Berlin, Germany. Her works are focused on the breakdown of family structure, shame culture, and patriarchal myths. Her creative works criticize traditions, media, culture, and norms. Her cinematic activity began as the main actor in Abbas Kiarostami and Mania Akbari's Ten (2002) nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. Since then, she acted, edited and has been in films that have been part of festivals such as Cannes Film Festival, British Film Institute, San Sebastián International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam."
tagline: "Iranian artist and filmmaker"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/aTWjsuj0JKRaLz6x9k5M7aqAAFB.jpg"
gender: "trans woman"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1992-03-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.26
  momentum:             2.774725274725276
  historical:           7.500146666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1179606/"
    handle:    "nm1179606"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://aminmaher.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%81%D8%B1"
    title: "امین ماہر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina_Maher"
    title: "Amina Maher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1"
    title: "أمين ماهر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1"
    title: "امين ماهر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina_Maher"
    title: "Amina Maher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina_Maher"
    title: "Amina Maher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1"
    title: "امین ماهر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1_%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%A5%D6%80"
    title: "Ամինա Մահեր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22278996"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/557856"
    title: "Amina Maher"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump