The Station (2025) |
Fiction Feature Film (in Production, Fall 2024)
Director: Sara Ishaq
Writer(s): Sara Ishaq & Nadia Eliewat
Producer: Nadia Eliewat (Screen Project)
Co-producer(s): Kepler Film (NL) / Georges Film (Fr) / OneTwo Films (DE) / BarantsFilm (NO)
Country: Yemen / Jordan / Qatar / Netherlands / France / Germany / Norway
SUPPORTED BY:
Venice FF Gap Financing Market (2024), Sørfond Production Fund (2024), CNC Production Fund (2023), AFAC Production Fund (2023), DFI Production Fund (2023) Netherlands Film Fund + Hubert Bals Fund (2022), Sørfond Pitch Invitation Award' (2020), L'Atelier Cinéfondation Festival de Cannes (2020), IFFR Wouter Barendrecht Award (2020), Cairo Film Festival Palm Hills Award (2019), Asia Pacific Screen Awards Development Fund (2019), Netherlands Film Festival Filmmore Emerging Talent Award (2019), RFC Jordan Film Fund for Development + Production (2019 + 2021), IFFR Hubert Bals 'Bright Future' Development Fund (2018)
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 (2024) |
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 (2013) |
Feature Documentary
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
Karama Has No Walls (2012) |
Short DocUmentary
Director: Sara Ishaq
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
One World Media Award 2013 | 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
TV Broadcast: BBC Arabic (2012)
Online Campaigns
TV WORK
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 from 2018 onwards under Comra Films Productions)