Ari Salazar



Ari Salazar is a filmmaker interested in exploring the everyday subtleties of life at the margins. Experimenting with different modes of visual storytelling, she engages with themes of migration, memory, gender and class.


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Susulu


Feature Hybrid Documentary
2026 | Digital | DE/TK | 90 min


In a small fishing village in Gökova Bay, a young fisherwoman begins to have dreams of a woman emerging from the sea, warning her of a storm that will kill all fish. Her prophecy disrupts the fisherwomens daily life. A ghost story on the climate crisis and the vanishing community entangled in it’s midst.



DIRECTOR
Ari Salazar

CINEMATOGRAPHER
Regina Wiebe

EDITOR
Sabrina Rücker

SCRIPT
Ari Salazar
Manuel Flock

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Günay Salazar

RESEARCHER
Yasemin Ulusoy

With the support of the Deuthsche Film und Fernsehen Akademie Berlin (DFFB)













Hoa anh đào


Short film
2024 | 16mm | DE | 5 min


The morning after the berlin wall has fallen, two women, HOA and ANH say goodbye to eachother and the small apartment they called their home for the past 5 years. We follow their last daily routine together. A short film experiment on disrupted homes, lost histories and memory.

HOA
as Dieu Linh

ANH
as Linh Le


DIRECTOR & CINEMATOGRAPHER
Ari Salazar

1. AC
Jonathan Deges

GAFFER
Jan Jurczack

LIGHTING ASSISTANT
Regina Wiebe
Kriti Dale

GRIP
Philip Müller

With the support of the Deuthsche Film und Fernsehen Akademie Berlin (DFFB)








Cuando Cesan los Sueños


Short film
2023 | 16mm | DE | 8 min


A young woman falls into an unexplainable sleep. Life goes on as normal, her family tends to her, weaving in and out of their daily rituals. Until one day, her sister slowly begins to fall into a trance.

VIRGINIA PONZETTO
as Maria Elba

TATIANA SAPHIR
as Teresa

MARIA FERNANDA ALVARDO FERNANDEZ
as Maria Luz



DIRECTOR
Ari Salazar

CINEMATOGRAPHER
Nathalie Seidl

1. AC
Philip Müller

GAFFER
Jerri Bazata

LIGHTING ASSISTANT
Peter Gille

SET DESIGN
Paulina Radic

SOUND RECORDIST
Tatiana Tsyganova

BOOM OPERATOR
Pina Beres

SET AL
Ali Motamedi

With the support of the Deuthsche Film und Fernsehen Akademie Berlin (DFFB)







North / South


Short film
2022 | Digital | DE | 7 min



On a worn down mat in a wrestling gym, two men embrace. Bodies intertwined, faces and limbs pressed hard against one another, one tries to devour the other. Deconstructing stigmas of violence and masculinity in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), the film acts as a short sensory meditation on the intimacy of physical touch.



DIRECTOR & CINEMATOGRAPHER
Ari Salazar & Philip Müller


WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Dffb (The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin)










A Sunday on the Moon 


Hybrid Documentary
2022 | Digital | AT | 3 min



In a warehouse near the Traunsee, a saltmine worker is steadily digging into mountains of salt, moving the masses of white crystals from one end to the other. Against the relentless clang of metal and salt, he begins to recount a fable of how the moon gained its craters. In another life, or perhaps even this one, it’s his story.

WATCH FILM 


DIRECTOR & CINEMATOGRAPHER
Ari Salazar

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Jascha Dor

EDITOR
Ari Salazar


WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Salinen Austria







FishTank


Hybrid Documentary
2022 | Digital | DE | 15 min


A short experimental film on anthropogenic (man-made) noise, and it’s disruption of the acoustic environment of fish.



DIRECTOR & CINEMATOGRAPHER
Ari Salazar

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Jascha Dor

EDITOR
Ari Salaza