News / Screenings






I only intermittently update events and news here, but it’s always worth a look!



April 27, 2026
To Make Things Grow has been selected for Sheffield Meet Market


March 2026
To Make Things Grow awarded R&D grant from Palestine Film Fund


November 22, 2025
Ayouni is screening at London Palestine Film Festival, at ICA, London


October 21-2, 2025
The Pathgen of War will have it’s Arab World Premiere at DCAF - Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, in Cairo.


August 2025
My new film project To Make Things Grow has received R&D funding from Chicken and Egg (supported by Netflix)


March 16-24 2024
Premiere of The Pathogen of War at INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition, at CPH:DOX
Kunstahall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark


February 2024
Preview Screening of How We Work
BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London, UK


June 27 - July, 2023
Preview of The Pathogen of War, Shubbak Festival at Battersea Arts Centre



March 2022
Protoype of The Pathogen of War, at CPH:LAB Prototype Pop Up Party, CPH:DOX 2022
Winner of EURIMAGE-NEWIMAGE Award
Exhibition Space Q, Copenhagen, Denmark


March 27, 2021
Commendation for Ayouni, RAI Film Prize


February 26, 2021
Release of Yasmin Fedda- An Ethnographic Eye collection on True Story.

This collection includes my films Ayouni, A Tale of Two Syrias, Queens of Syria, Breadmakers, A letter to my mother in the year 1980, In the year ninety


February 26, 2021
Publication of ‘Am I still a filmmaker? on Raising Films 


October 28, 2020
Publication of Filming the Invisible article on Newlines Magazine


October 27, 2020
Blink and You’ll Miss UsRelease of micro-film poems presented free and online October 27 at 8:30pm (ET) at FestivalofAuthors.ca. Check out the event, along with tons of other free literary happenings over at Toronto International Festival of Authors


Wednesday 25 March, 2020
Ayouni World Premiere at CPH:Dox in the Fact: Award Competition, Copenhagen!

7:15 pm at Cinemateket Asta


Saturday 25 January, 2020, 7-9:30 pm
Queens of Syria screening and Q & A at Other Cinemas, Wembley, London


Saturday 9 November, 3 pm
Siamo Tornati screening at Mois du Doc, Brussles


Saturday 19 October, 2019, 8 pm
Queens of Syria (2013) screening at Trung tâm hỗ trợ phát triển tài năng Điện ảnh TPD, Hanoi


Wednesday 25 September, 2019, 8 pm
Queens of Syria (2013) is screeing at Leighton House Museum, London in the Cinema for Syria Series with Hands Up Foundation


Thursday 20 June, 2019
Breadmakers, from 2007, is screening at Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of Phenomenal Shorts!