Nora Alsharif

Nora Alsharif is a Jordanian film director best known for her work on the short films “Wednesday Afternoons” and “Ismail”. After a career as a graphic designer, she turned to her passion for filmmaking and moved to London in 2009 where she obtained a Master’s degree in Directing Film from the University of Westminster. Her graduation film “Wednesday Afternoons” won the Don Quixote Jury Award in Poland and was screened at many festivals worldwide. In 2012, she teamed up with her father who wrote the short film “Ismail”, which was selected to participate at the 11th Berlinale Talent Campus, (part of the Berlin International Film Festival) and went on to premiere at the Palm Springs Short Film Festival and won several awards including Best Short Film at the Alexandria Film Festival. Alsharif currently resides in the US where she is developing her first feature film project.