No Nation Films

Co-founder, Co-CEO & Managing Director

since 2014

Founded in Berlin as a continuation of the uncompromising cinematic productions of Proaction Film in Syria and Egypt. The company produces and co-produces award-winning films released theatrically, on TV and VoD platforms in Germany, France, Japan, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the UK, and featured at international festivals including Cannes, Venice, IDFA, Busan, Locarno, London, New York, and Sundance.

DOX BOX e.V.

Active Co-Chair of the Board
as of 2025

Co-founder & General Assembly member

Previously:
Co-Chair of the Board 2014 – 2016
General Director 2014 – 2018
Acting Director for the Film Fund and The Academy 2015 – 2018

DOX BOX e.V. is a non-profit association based in Germany specialised in the support of documentary film culture and community in the Arabic-speaking region, promoting the values of human rights, dignity and equality.

DOX BOX Film Festival in Syria

Co-founded 2007
Co-director & co-programmer 2007 – 2013
Head of Industry & Training 2009 – 2012

The largest and most prominent documentary film festival in its region from creation until closure, 2007–2011. The festival was highly selective, showcasing a non-competitive selection of 45 films including work by D.A. Pennebaker, Guzmán, Rosi, Longinotto, and Philibert, and hosting masterclasses and workshops under the CAMPUS banner. The festival closed its fourth edition just two days before the eruption of the Syrian uprising, and withheld its fifth edition with a public statement in response to the excessive and brutal use of force by the Syrian government against protesters.

DOX BOX Global Day for Syria

Co-director & Curator 2012 – 2013

In solidarity with the Syrian people and in objection to the violation of human rights, DOX BOX did not take place in 2012 as usual. Instead, a Global Day in Solidarity with the Syrian People was launched worldwide, with screenings across the globe on March 15–16, 2012, coinciding with the first anniversary of the Syrian revolution and the festival’s original opening date. This was repeated in 2013 with six montage sequences of citizen journalist videos made in hiding in Syria since the eruption of the revolution.

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Proaction Film

Co-founder & CEO
General Director 2002 – 2013
Senior Producer 2002 – 2013
Head of WOMAN distribution programme

Founded in Damascus as the first independent documentary film outfit in the country. The company produced and co-produced international films, set up a regional sales agency to distribute creative documentaries, and ran a non-profit festival (DOX BOX). Proaction Film titles, projects and team were numerously awarded, including the EDN Award, the FIDADOC honorary award, the Katrin Cartlidge Award, the first-ever George Polk Award for Documentary Film, the Human Rights Watch Nestor Almendros Award for Courage in Filmmaking, a Grierson, a Sundance Grand Jury Award, a Yamagata Award of Excellence, and others.