He was invited to the 70th Venice Film Festival in 2013 with his first feature film, Fish & Cat. The film was screened in the Orizzonti section and won the Lion Award for creativity and innovation. In 2018, his second film, Invasion , screened at the 68th Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for the Teddy Award. Mokri returned to Venice in 2020 with his third film, Careless Crime . This latest film won the Golden Medal Screenwriter Award from the Independent Critics Association in Venice, and then won the Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival.

Shahram Mokri has also sat on several International Film Festival juries, including the Orizzonti jury at the 78th Venice Film Festival, 57th Chicago International Film Festival, 76th Locarno Film Festival, 5th Hanoi International Film Festival, 7th Bengaluru IFF etc.