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 place, power, feminist subjectivity, and experimentation.

Her recent films span personal and experimental documentary, and include Sister Mother Lover Child, Echolocation, Amal’s Garden, and the feature-length film Jaddoland, which was awarded five festival jury awards, including the 2020 Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award and was broadcast on US public television.

She was a Fulbright Scholar to Turkey, a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her work has screened in festivals and galleries internationally, including at Cinéma du Réel at the Centre Pompidou, Cairo International Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Berkeley Art Museum, Sursock Museum, Black Star Film Festival, Images Festival, DOXA, Alchemy Film & Video Arts Festival, Camden International Film Festival and Kasseler Dokfest. Her work has received support from the Sundance Documentary Fund, Firelight Media, Tribeca Film Institute, AFAC, CAAM and BAVC.

Nadia’s creative practice is preceded by over a decade of work as a community practitioner, with training in urban planning that grounds her creative approach within critical understandings of power, inequity and the production of space. She holds a Masters of City & Regional Planning (2009) and an MFA in Art Practice (2021), both from the University of California at Berkeley. 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 and Grasshopper Film.