Kazemi also earned a degree in Philosophy & Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Davis.
In 2009, Kazemi held a lead role in Heal, a film about conflict in Afghanistan which has won over twenty international and domestic film festival awards, including winner of the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Category at the San Diego Comic-Con International Film Festival (2011), winner of the Frank D. Capra award (2011), and the Humanitarian Award at the Cleveland International Film Festival (2011).
In this film she performed the first on screen kiss for an Afghan actress[3] and was called a "trailblazer" by NBC.
[5] In 2013, Fereshta played the leading role in The Icy Sun, a film about rape in Afghanistan.
NBC News said her film "breaks new ground for Afghanistan, where victims of rape can be forced to marry their attackers to preserve their families' honor".