Directing

Waad al-Kateab

born 1991 · Directing

65.8avg grm

4titles

2honors

Honors

2

2020BBC 100 Women

2019European Film Award — Best Documentary

Bio

Syrian journalist, filmmaker, and activist. Her documentary, For Sama (2019) was nominated for four BAFTAs at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, winning for Best Documentary, and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards. Her coverage of the Battle for Aleppo won an International Emmy Award for Current Affairs & News for Channel 4 News. The pseudonymous surname Al-Kateab is used to protect her family.

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2020s2 titles

Death Without Mercy2024 · as Director58.7 W

We Dare to Dream2023 · as Self - Film Director58.5

2010s1 title

For Sama2019 · as Self83.0

1980s1 title

Frontline1983 · as Director · series63.3

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Waad al-Kateab

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born1991

known forDirecting

titles on site4

avg GRM65.8

honors2 · BBC 100 Women, 2020

Syrian journalist, filmmaker, and activist. Her documentary, For Sama (2019) was nominated for four BAFTAs at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, winning for Best Documentary, and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards. Her coverage of the Battle for Aleppo won an International Emmy Award for Current Affairs & News for Channel 4 News. The pseudonymous surname Al-Kateab is used to protect her family.

Filmography

ranked on this site

2020s

2 titles

58.7Death Without Mercy2024 · as Director W

58.5We Dare to Dream2023 · as Self - Film Director

2010s

1 title

83.0For Sama2019 · as Self

1980s

1 title

63.3Frontline1983 · as Director · series

Browse the ranked list