Jaddoland
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2017
Logline
A visit back home to Texas prompts the filmmaker to reflect on her mother’s creative life. However, when her Iraqi refugee grandfather arrives on their doorstep, his presence raises deeper questions about belonging and the places the family calls home.
Nadia Shihab
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
Raised in west Texas by an Iraqi mother and a Yemeni father, Nadia Shihab creates work that explores narratives of place, identity and dislocation to forge new ways of rendering personal and collective history. She currently lives in Oakland.
Talal Al-Muhanna
PRODUCER
Talal produces documentaries and features by Arab filmmakers internationally. Past films were funded by Sundance and Cinereach and screened at Directors' Fortnight, IDFA and NYFF. In 2016, Algerian fiction Kindil was awarded Best Film by Roberto Rossellini Institute in Rome and Egyptian documentary Whose Country? was broadcast on World Channel.