Basma al-Sharif
Directing
1983-01-01 · Kuwait
Basma al-Sharif is an Artist/Filmmaker born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, raised between France and the US. Since receiving a Master of Fine Arts in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she developed her practice nomadically between Chicago, Cairo, Beirut, Sharjah, Amman, the Gaza Strip and Paris. Basma's work centers on the human condition in relation to shifting geopolitical landscapes and natural environments. Interested in what cannot ever be proven or explained, she uses photography, film, video, sound, language and performance to reveal the fallibility of our perception and of history. Engaging with politics on a visceral level through pieces characterized by their immersive, lyrical qualities, Alsharif creates familiar environments that lure us into unsettling experiences of being comfortable and foreign simultaneously.
Filmography
Morning Circle
2025 · Movie
Old Masters
2025 · Movie
It's So Beautiful Here
2025 · Movie
Capital
2022 · Movie
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
2019 · Movie
Ouroboros
2017 · Movie
Trompe l’oeil
2016 · Movie
Renée’s Room
2015 · Movie
A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015 · Movie
Atlantis
2014 · Movie
O, Persecuted
2014 · Movie
Deep Sleep
2014 · Movie
Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
2014 · Movie
Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2014 · Movie
High Noon
2014 · Movie
Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013 · Movie
Home Movies Gaza
2013 · Movie
Everywhere Was The Same
2012 · Movie
The Story of Milk and Honey
2011 · Movie
Turkish Delight
2010 · Movie
We Began by Measuring Distance
2009 · Movie