Nadia Shihab is a filmmaker, artist and educator whose work emerges through processes that are relational and intergenerational. Working primarily across film and sound, her projects are shaped by an interest in feeling and form, feminist subjectivity, counter-narrative and experimentation. Her recent films include Sister Mother Lover Child, Echolocation, Amal’s Garden, and the feature-length film Jaddoland, which was awarded five festival jury awards, including the Independent Spirit “Truer than Fiction” Award. Her work has screened in festivals and galleries internationally. She was raised 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. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.