Sharjah Biennial 16

Documentary filmmaker James Longley’s projects have focused on amplifying the voices and perspectives of the most vulnerable through cinema.

Ruth Maclennan examines changing relationships between places and their inhabitants in the context of geopolitical and climate upheaval.

Encompassing video, film and photography, visual artist Basir Mahmood's practice contemplates embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary alongside his personal milieu.

During his 35 year career in cinema, Mohamad Malas has tried to achieve his own film project, focusing on the ‘missing’ in time and place within the Syrian community.

Writer, director and producer Mujah Maraini-Melehi has cultivated her passion for the arts across Morocco, Italy and the United States.

Marcia Smith is a writer, filmmaker, and a non-profit executive invested in telling and producing nonfiction stories about racial injustices rooted in African American history and contemporary lived experience.

Richie Mehta is a writer and director of feature films, documentaries and long-form films/series for festivals, cinema and online platform play.

Julia Meltzer's work with David Thorne has been awarded prizes at the European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale and the Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival.

Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, Metahaven is a research-based collective working across design, art, filmmaking, teaching and publications.

Mochu is an experimental filmmaker, artist and writer whose work engages with the life of fictional figures found in works of art and their encounters with various philosophies, mythologies and techno-fiction.

Mehelli’s first love had always been cinema, and in 2005 he founded Second Run, a DVD company dedicated to releasing outstanding, award-winning films from around the world.

Ali Mostafa is a filmmaker, director and producer.

Encompassing video, sculpture and installation, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s work explores strategies of political resistance.

Filmmaker and cinematographer Akosua Adoma Owusu explores the colliding identities of black immigrants in America through multiple forms.

Pelin Esmer is a writer and director of fiction and documentary films from Istanbul.