Director
Basma Alsharif
43 years · Kuwait · 11 films
Basma Alsharif 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.
Best known for
Filmography 11
Morning Circle
2025 · Director
Capital
2022 · Director
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
2019 · Actor
Ouroboros
2017 · Director, Editor
O, Persecuted
2014 · Director
Deep Sleep
2014 · Cinematography, Director
Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
2014 · Actor
Home Movies Gaza
2013 · Director, Writer
Everywhere Was The Same
2012 · Director
The Story of Milk and Honey
2011 · Director
Turkish Delight
2010 · Director