Basma Alsharif
Director · Actor · WriterBasma 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.
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FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR2
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Morning Circle
2025
Director
- It's So Beautiful Here
It's So Beautiful Here
2025
Director
Capital
2022
Director
Ouroboros
2017
Director
- Trompe l’oeil
Trompe l’oeil
2016
Director
- A Field Guide to the Ferns
A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015
Director
- Renée’s Room
Renée’s Room
2015
Director
- Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2014
Director
- High Noon
High Noon
2014
Director
Deep Sleep
2014
Director
O, Persecuted
2014
Director
Home Movies Gaza
2013
Director
- Farther Than the Eye Can See
Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013
Director
Everywhere Was The Same
2012
Director
The Story of Milk and Honey
2011
Director
Turkish Delight
2010
Director
- We Began by Measuring Distance
We Began by Measuring Distance
2009
Director
- Old Masters
Old Masters
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