Usama Alshaibi Filmes

Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi shares his own story of experiencing racism in post-9/11 America. Showcasing the diversity of Arabs living in...

A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.

A young Muslim Dominatrix in the midst of a spiritual crisis.

Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a...

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

A woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.

A psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity, Paul the Apostle. His life, ideology and influence are reconstructed by piecing...

Close-up of a woman crying.

A woman is chased across a field by an unseen assailant.

In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his...

Baghdad, Iowa is the mask, the shadow and the night stars that sing the sorrow song of death. You might be dreaming, so don't wake up until you...

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.