Nadia Shihab is a filmmaker and artist whose work emerges through processes that are relational and intergenerational. Working primarily across film and sound, her projects are shaped by an interest in feeling and form, feminist subjectivity and experimentation.

Recent 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 creative practice is preceded by over 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 is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in the Creative Arts, a Fulbright Scholar, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her work has screened at Cinéma du Réel at the Centre Pompidou, Cairo International FF, Walker Art Center, BAMPFA, Sursock Museum (Beirut), Black Star Film Festival, Images, DOXA, Alchemy Film & Video Arts, Camden IFF, and Kasseler Dokfest, among others.

She was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen and is 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.

Image from Sister Mother Lover Child, 2023