My work in film approaches cinema as an experiential and transformational medium rather than a purely narrative one. Across documentary, campaign films, and long-form projects, I structure films as temporal architectures — shaping timelines where embodiment, perception, and inner change can be witnessed and articulated over time.
I work with film as an evolving architecture of light, space, rhythm, and narrative, designed to support emotional and psychological transformation. Each project responds to a specific human, social, or cultural condition, using the story itself as a site of transmutation rather than representation alone.
Rather than treating film as a standalone output, I approach it as part of a wider world-building practice, where character, environment, and transformation arc are designed together and unfold across time.
Her Ink — Award-Winning Featurette | SoulHouse Media (2023)
(Co-writer & Production Manager)
(Co-writer & Production Manager)
My first film project explored the healing journey of women navigating recovery after breast cancer. The film examined the relationship between body, identity, self-expression, following tattoo artist Joa Antoun, whose practice is dedicated to supporting women in alchemising their relationship with their bodies through tattoo art.
Through intimate storytelling, the work framed tattooing as a ritual of reclamation — offering a space where trauma, memory, and self-image could be consciously transformed.
Khallouna Nehke 3a Bakkir — Mental Health Awareness Campaign
(Director & Editor)
This public mental health awareness campaign explored psychological wellbeing through embodied expression rather than testimony alone. I designed the narrative and transformational arc of the participants, developed the guiding questions, and directed the film on set — shaping performance, spatial framing, and colour to support the unfolding of inner states.
Participants were guided through a physical enactment of emotional experience, using light, space, and movement to articulate internal sensations. The film followed a progression from contraction to release, creating space for participants to name their turning points toward seeking support and care.
The project was developed in collaboration with a local NGO and supported by international humanitarian organisations, using film as a medium to destigmatise mental health and foreground embodied pathways to expression and help-seeking.
Arts & Cultural Transformation — Long-Form Documentary (In Progress)
(Creative Producer, Writer, Set Design & Scenography)
This ongoing long-form documentary project explores transformation within the Arab art world through the lives and trajectories of key cultural figures. The series examines art, collecting, and soft power as forces that shape cultural identity, influence, and contemporary discourse across the region.
My role encompasses the development of the series treatment, narrative architecture, and character transformation arcs, as well as experiential storytelling through set design and scenography. Working across both scripted and non-scripted material, the project employs an immersive cinematic language to construct layered narratives that move between personal evolution and broader cultural frameworks.
