Nadia Shihab is a filmmaker and artist whose work explores the relational and intergenerational. Working primarily across film and sound, her projects are shaped by an interest in power, place, subjectivity, and experimentation.

Her films include Sister Mother Lover Child, Echolocation, Amal’s Garden, and the feature-length film Jaddoland, which was awarded five festival jury awards including the Independent Spirit “Truer than Fiction” Award and was broadcast for three seasons on US public television. Her work has screened in festivals and galleries internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, and Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).

Her creative practice is preceded and informed by a decade of work as a community practitioner, with graduate training in urban planning that grounds her creative approach within critical understandings of power, inequity and the production of space. She holds a BA in Sociology from UT Austin, and a Masters in City & Regional Planning and MFA in Art Practice, both from UC Berkeley.

She was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar (Turkey), and an Assistant Professor in Film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Her work is distributed by CFMDC, Video Out, and Grasshopper Film.