
Farah Nabulsi
Directing
Biography
Farah Nabulsi is a writer, producer and director. In 2019, Farah co-wrote and directed the short 24 minute film, The Present. It premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2020 where it won the Audience Award for Best Film. Prior to The Present, Farah wrote and produced 3 other shorts, including Today They Took My Son, that premiered at Edmonton International Film Festival.
Known For

A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker.
The Teacher

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
The Present

When a leaked video of his lecture on Psychology of Oppression goes viral, tenured Palestinian-American professor Karim Hadawi faces a tough choice: a public apology to save his career, or lose his job and custody of his daughter.
Exception

Since October 2023, Gaza has been sealed from the world-except for one group. International doctors breach the blockade, what they find is not just a humanitarian crisis, but a calculated dismantling of life itself.
Life Support

For decades, a gross injustice has been perpetuated against an entire people. Through consumption of news media, we think we understand what they are going through. But we have no idea.
Oceans of Injustice

A mother coping with her young son being taken away by a military system. Her helplessness to prevent the cruel and inhumane treatment she knows he is experiencing is more than any mother can bear.
Today They Took My Son

A haunting, abstract and experimental narrative of a woman in the streets of Gaza surrounded by the devastation after the bombs have stopped. She has been helping others, but revelations show it is she who now needs help.