Nadia Shihab is an artist and filmmaker working across cinema and sound. Her projects are guided by an interest in subjectivity, feeling, and form, and through processes that are relational and intergenerational. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video and a Fulbright scholar.

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 work has screened in film festivals and galleries internationally, including at Cinema du Reel at the Centre Pompidou, Cairo International Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Images Festival, Sursock Museum and Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.

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 University of Texas at Austin, and a Masters in City & Regional Planning and MFA in Art Practice, both from University of California at Berkeley.

She was raised in the Texas panhandle 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.