Nadia Shihab is an artist and filmmaker working primarily across cinema and sound. Her film projects in experimental non-fiction are guided by an interest in the subjective and relational. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video, an Independent Spirit award-winner, and a Fulbright scholar.

Recent films include Sister Mother Lover Child, Echolocation, 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 internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou (Cinema du Réel), Walker Art Center, BAMPFA, DOXA, e-flux Screening Room, BlackStar, Camden , Alchemy Film & Video Arts Festival and Cairo International Film Festival, among others. In 2026, she led the restoration of Parine Jaddo’s experimental trilogy from the late 1990’s.

Her creative practice is 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 was raised in 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 on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, Canada. Her work is distributed by CFMDC, Video Out, and Grasshopper Film.