THE STATION |
Debut Fiction Feature Film
(World Premiere - La Semaine de la critique, Cannes, 2026)
Director: Sara Ishaq
Writer(s): Sara Ishaq & Nadia Eliewat
Producer: Nadia Eliewat (Screen Project)
Co-producer(s): Georges Film (Fr) / OneTwo Films (DE) / Kepler Film (NL) / BarantsFilm (NO) / Setara Films (Yemen)
Country: Yemen / Jordan / Qatar / NL / France / Germany / Norway
FUNDS & AWARDS:
Winner of La Biennale di Venezia Prize for best film in post production - Venice Film Festival's Final Cut in Venice (2025) / Sørfond Pitch Invitation Award' / IFFR Wouter Barendrecht Award / Cairo Film Festival Palm Hills Award / Asia Pacific Screen Awards Development Fund / Netherlands Film Festival Filmmore Emerging Talent Award
Recipient of FFD Federal German Fund / Eurimage / Venice FF Gap Financing Market / Sørfond Production Fund / CNC Production Fund / AFAC Production Fund / DFI Production Fund / Netherlands Film Fund + Hubert Bals Fund / L'Atelier Cinéfondation Festival de Cannes / RFC Jordan Film Fund for Development + Production / IFFR Hubert Bals 'Bright Future' Development Fund
FARIHA (2024) | Short Documentary
Producer: Sara Ishaq
Director: Badr Yousef
Production: Setara Films
Country: Yemen / Netherlands / Qatar
SUPPORTED BY:
DFI Production Fund, Doha Film Institute (2022)
Post-Production Grant, Al-Mawred Cultral Resource (2022)
There Is no space (2026) |
Short Documentary
Producer: Sara Ishaq
Director: Amgad Al-Mohaya
Production: Setara Films
Country: Yemen / Netherlands
SUPPORTED BY:
AFAC Production Fund, Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (2022)
The Mulberry House | Personal Documentary
World Premiere - IDFA 2013
Director: Sara Ishaq
Producer(s): Diana El-Jeiroudi (ProAction Films) /
Mostafa Yousef (Seen Films) / Sara Ishaq (Setara Films)
Country: Yemen / Syria / Egypt / UAE
Length: 64 Mins
TV Broadcast Al-Jazeera English (2014)
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
This Human World Film Festival Jury Prize 2014 | WINNER
Audience Favourite Award at Berwick Film Festival UK 2014 | WINNER
Dubai International Film Festival MUHR Award 2014 | NOMINEE
DOK.FEST Munich Best Doc Award 2014 | NOMINEE
AEGEAN DOCS Best Political Doc Award 2014 | NOMINEE
DocsBarcelona+Medellín International Doc Film Festival 2015 | SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Producer: Sara Ishaq (Setara Films)
Co-Producer: Hotspot Films
Country: Yemen / UAE
Length: 26 Mins
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS:
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short 2014 | NOMINEE
BAFTA Scotland | New Talent Award 2012 | NOMINEE
EDINDOCS Film Festival | Best Short Film Award 2013 | WINNER
Al-Jazeera TV Awards | Best Short Doc Award 2012 | WINNER
United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) | Best Short Award 2012 | WINNER
Arab Film Festival, San Francisco (AFF) | Outstanding Short Award 2012 | WINNER
Evolution Mallorca Intl Film Festival 2012 | Honourable Mention for Powerful and Human Storytelling
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2012| Honourable Mention for Excellence in Filmmaking
One World Media Award 2013 | NOMINEE
TV Broadcast: BBC Arabic (2012)
Karama Has No Walls (2012) | Short Doc
TV WORK
NTR / NPO START (DUTCH PUBLIC TV) - DIRECTOR | Getuigen Van Gaza (Witnesses from Gaza) - Series, 2025 (NL / Egypt)
BBC WORLD - LOCAL PRODUCER / RESEARCHER | The House of Saud (Episode 1, 60 Mins, 2018) (Yemen)
AJ+ - Yemen Fight Club - DIRECTOR/DOP
BBC OUR WORLD/NEWSNIGHT - LOCAL PRODUCER / RESEARCHER | Funeral Bombing (30 min, 2017) (Yemen)
CHANNEL FOUR - UNREPORTED WORLD - LOCAL PRODUCER / RESEARCHER | Yemeni Child Prisoners on Death Row (60 min, 2013)
MEDIATRUST - LOCAL PRODUCER | Entrepreneurial Tribal Women (10 min, 2012)
BBC WORLD - LOCAL PRODUCER / RESEARCHER / DOP | Yemen Uprising (60 min, 2011) OUR World - BBC World | Multiple short news pieces - BBC World
BBC TWO - LOCATION COORDINATOR / RESEARCHER | Women In Black (5x60 min, 2007)
(All TV productions between 2018-2023 were under Comra Films Productions)
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