Mariam Ghani, an Afghan-American writer, artist, and filmmaker, was born in New York City, NY and grew up in Maryland, earning degrees from New York University and Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts. Ghani’s work focuses on spaces in which social, cultural, and political structures and forces engage and take on visible configurations. Her films have been screened at locations across the world, including Berlinale, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, DOC NYC, Sheffield Doc/Fest, SFFILM, Ann Arbor, FIDBA, and Il Cinema Ritrovato, among others. Her work has reached just as far, shown in numerous museums and galleries, including the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Guggenheim, the CCCB in Barcelona, and the Dhaka Art Summit. Much of Ghani’s work has involved analyzing extended periods of time and working with the national archive of Afghan films. What We Left Unfinished is Ghani’s first feature film and it premiered at the 2019 Berlinale before hitting US theaters in the summer of 2021. She is currently working on her second feature, Dis-Ease.