

An adopted man travels to meet the refugee relatives he never knew, searching for the truth, only to find it shadowed by fragments of war and the myth of identity unraveling around him.
I'm a Middle Eastern filmmaker based in Chicago, IL. My work expresses themes about cultural upbringing, adoption, and personal documentary with awards from the Hollywood Screenings Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Liverpool Underground Film Festival, and the Milwaukee Film Festival. I’m also the Head Coordinator of the Black Harvest Film Festival at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a 2021 NYC Firelight Regional Groundwork Lab member.

ZORDOVIA, MY LOVE
Two orphaned teenagers enter a formerly militarized buffer-zone in Eastern Europe with the hopes of finding one of the boy’s birth mothers.
PORTLAND CINEMA EXPO

FLOWERS FOREVER
A young Black Trans female hip-hop artist from one of the roughest areas of Milwaukee works dead-end jobs by day and does live performances by night. She hopes to be able to perform her new songs live during the thaw of the pandemic.
HONORARY SELECTION - 2023 BLACK HARVEST FILM FESTIVAL

DAKHLA
A young Muslim man must face his longing to fit in while living in Latin America, and thus is forced to reconcile with the dark post-colonial turmoil of his homeland.
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2024 MILWAUKEE FILM FESTIVAL

DAY OF THE RIESENRAD
Is it a memory or an obsessive relationship with the Central Circus’s Ferris Wheel set for demolition?

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Screening Dates
THU, SEP 8
ZORDOVIA, MY LOVE
Liverpool, UK
8PM
FRI, SEP 16
MOTHER CROW
Ontario, CA
10PM
THU, MAY 19
ZORDOVIA, MY LOVE
Kansas City, MO
9PM
FRI, NOV 4
DAKHLA
Chicago, IL
8PM