The rain in Oakland, my grandmother's home in Baghdad, my aunts' voices in What's App, my daughter learning to count to ten, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio, the search for new forms.
About the filmmaker
Nadia Shihab is an Indie Spirit award-winning filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the personal, the relational, and the diasporic. Her first feature-length film, Jaddoland, was awarded five festival jury awards including the Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award in 2020. Described as “intimate, experimental and beautifully playful”, Jaddoland went on to broadcast for three seasons on US public television. Nadia’s work has screened internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center and Berkeley Art Museum, and has received support from the Sundance Documentary Fund, AFAC, CAAM, TFI, BAVC, and Firelight Media. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Turkey, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and her work as an artist is preceded by a decade of work as a community practitioner and affordable housing advocate in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen and is currently an Assistant Professor in Film in the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
- Year2021
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageIraqi Turkish (Turkman), English
- CountryUnited States, Iraq, Yemen
- DirectorNadia Shihab
The rain in Oakland, my grandmother's home in Baghdad, my aunts' voices in What's App, my daughter learning to count to ten, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio, the search for new forms.
About the filmmaker
Nadia Shihab is an Indie Spirit award-winning filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the personal, the relational, and the diasporic. Her first feature-length film, Jaddoland, was awarded five festival jury awards including the Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award in 2020. Described as “intimate, experimental and beautifully playful”, Jaddoland went on to broadcast for three seasons on US public television. Nadia’s work has screened internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center and Berkeley Art Museum, and has received support from the Sundance Documentary Fund, AFAC, CAAM, TFI, BAVC, and Firelight Media. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Turkey, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and her work as an artist is preceded by a decade of work as a community practitioner and affordable housing advocate in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen and is currently an Assistant Professor in Film in the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
- Year2021
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageIraqi Turkish (Turkman), English
- CountryUnited States, Iraq, Yemen
- DirectorNadia Shihab