Bani Khoshnoudi is a filmmaker and visual artist born in Tehran and raised in Texas.

Her approach to film comes from a background in photography and architecture, and often deals with themes related to displacement and the modern subject; cities and their transformations, ruins... Her shorts, documentaries and features (Transit, A People In The Shadows, Ziba, The Silent Majority Speaks) have travelled widely through festivals.

In 2008, Bani was studio artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP in New York. Her work has been shown in galleries in Tehran, New York, Paris, Cairo, Mexico City, and Rotterdam. In 2022, she is winner of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Film/Video.

She is currently working on two essay films and developing two fiction films, in Mexico and France.