Basma Alsharif
Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1983
Place of birth: Kuwait
Basma 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
21 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
7.0
Morning Circle
2025NR
Old Masters
20258.0
It's So Beautiful Here
2025
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Capital
2022
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Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
2019
5.0
Ouroboros
2017NR
Trompe l’oeil
2016NR
Renée’s Room
2015NR
A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015
6.4
Atlantis
2014
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O, Persecuted
2014
5.8
Deep Sleep
2014
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Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
2014NR
High Noon
2014NR
Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2014NR
Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013
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Home Movies Gaza
2013
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Everywhere Was The Same
2012
6.0
The Story of Milk and Honey
2011
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Turkish Delight
20105.0
We Began by Measuring Distance
2009