Nada El-Omari is a filmmaker and writer of Palestinian and Egyptian origin, based in Montreal. Through a hybrid practice combining film, installation, writing, and sound design, she explores themes of memory, migration, displacement, and diasporic identity. By focusing on process and fragments in text, sound, and image, Nada explores new ways to self-narrate, and speak hybridity and self. Her work, often constructed from intimate fragments: family archives, recorded voices, everyday objects, questions notions of belonging and intergenerational transmission. Nada El-Omari favours a poetic and non-linear narration that brings out the traces and silences of stories that are often invisible or erased. Her films have been shown at several festivals, on Shasha and Tenk, and in various galleries. Her work has also been published in Montreal Serai, qumra journal, on Pavillons and in Tantôt magazine. Her last digital project was commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario in collaboration with Sonya Mwambu and shown as a digital installation in gallery, made with the help od InterAccess’s immersive projection environment as a two-player or one-player interactive experience. El-Omari holds a BFA in Film Production and an MFA in Film from York University.

Distribution:
Vidéographe

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Filmography:

  • Momentum, 19:00, experimental, 2025.

  • honey, tea, primrose and you, 45:00, experimental, 2025, with Sonya Mwambu.

  • 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.

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image credit: Carine Zahner & Samyuktha Movva