Asena Nour
Directing
Biography
Asena Nour is an independent filmmaker exploring liminal, marginal and taboo subjects across documentaries, experimental and narrative films. Born and based in London, she offers a distinctly Turkish, working-class and diasporic lens to examine heritage, migration, mothers, memory, care and violence rooted in womanhood and the everyday.
Known For
On the day of his grandma’s funeral, 17-year-old Red faces multi-generational demons in this surreal horror film exploring colonial trauma and Black family histories.
Black & White Duppy
On the opening night of a group exhibition, Nora, a young female artist is hacked by an ominous troll. What follows is a descent into sexual trauma, as she and her friend Kyra search for the perpetrator in a night-long odyssey.
See You In The Dark
A lyrical meditation on how mothers move us across borders, My Mother's Mother is a film about mothers, cycles of migration, cycles of life, death, and rebirth, tracing the umbilical cord like the root that it is. Exploring the lingering past lives of our mothers, and our grandmothers, drawing upon the filmmaker's matrilineal lineage, Asena Nour untangles the memories, stories and histories that make up this generational saga about womanhood.
My Mother’s Mother
A trilogy of short documentaries (‘Fatherland’, ‘Motherland’, ‘Homeland’) mapping out the personal migration stories of the filmmaker’s family, as well as a look at a generation of young Muslims in multicultural London.