Nada El-Omari is a filmmaker and writer of Palestinian and Egyptian origin based in Montreal, Quebec. Her practice and research interests centre on the intergenerational transmissions of memories, displacement, and the stories of belonging and identity which she explores through a poetic, hybrid lens. Focusing on process and fragments in text, sound, and image, Nada explores new ways to self-narrate, and speak hybridity and self. Her films have recently been shown at Dazibao, VIFF with Xinema and Gallery Gachet, DARC, Wexner Centre for the Arts in Ohio, SAVAC’s Monitor 15, Images Festival Toronto, Arab Film & Media Institute NYC, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Les Instants Vidéos Friche La Belle de Mai, NYU’s Orphan Films Symposium, Belfast Film Festival, Palestine Cinema Days, Visions Cairo, Toronto Palestine Film Festival, on Shasha and Tenk as well as in gallery at L'Oeil De Poisson and Plein sud centre d’exposition en art actuel. Her work has also been published in Montreal Serai and qumra journal. Her last digital project was commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario in collaboration with Sonya Mwambu and shown as a digital installation in a gallery, custom-made to InterAccess’s immersive projection environment as a two-player interactive experience. El-Omari holds a BFA in Film Production and an MFA in Film from York University.
Distribution: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Filmography:
on top and through one another ii, 2:53, experimental, 2022, with Sonya Mwambu, commissioned by the8fest.
from where to where من وين لوين d'où vers où, 8:02, experimental, 2021.
on top and through one another, 1:25, experimental, 2021, with Sonya Mwambu.
in the jasmine vines, 30:37, experimental, 2021.
Yaffa, 7:38, experimental, 2019.
Eva, 12:45, documentary, 2018.
image credit: Samyuktha Movva