Born in 1990 in Iraq, she is a filmmaker and artist based in Vienna. Her first fictional feature film, ‘Sonne’ (2022), premiered at the Berlinale in the Encounters competition and won the Best First Feature Award. She was also nominated for European Discovery at the 35th European Film Awards. ‘Moon’ (2024), her second feature film, premiered at the Locarno’s Concorso Internazionale, where it won the Special Jury prize, the Boccalino D’oro Prize of the Independent Film Critics and a special mention from the Ecumenical Jury.