Ruba Nadda is an Arab Canadian film director. She was born in Montreal

Montreal

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, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

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 on 6 December 1972 to a Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

n father and a Palestinian

Palestine

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 mother. She made several award-winning short films, including Lost Woman Story, Interstate Love Story, So Far Gone and Damascus Nights before writing and directing features I Always Come to You, Unsettled and Sabah

Sabah (film)

Sabah is a 2005 film directed by Ruba Nadda.The film stars Arsinée Khanjian as Sabah, a traditional Muslim woman living in Canada. She falls in love with a non-Muslim Canadian man ....

. Her movie Cairo Time

Cairo Time

Cairo Time is a 2009 film by Canadian director Ruba Nadda. It is a romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard....

won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...

. She is known for shooting feature films in very short time spans.

Education

Nadda studied Literature at York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

 in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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. She went on to study Film Production at NYU

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

's Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts

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.

Filmography

Year	Film	Notes
1997	Wet Heat Drifts Through the Afternoon
1997	Interstate Love Story
1997	Do Nothing
1998	The Wind Blows Towards Me Particularly
1998	So Far Gone
1998	Damascus Nights
1999	Slut
1999	Laila
2000	I Always Come to You
2000	Blue Turning Grey Over You
2000	Black September
2000	I Would Suffer Cold Hands for You
2001	Unsettled
2004	Aadan
2005	Sabah Sabah (film) Sabah is a 2005 film directed by Ruba Nadda.The film stars Arsinée Khanjian as Sabah, a traditional Muslim woman living in Canada. She falls in love with a non-Muslim Canadian man ....
2009	Cairo Time Cairo Time Cairo Time is a 2009 film by Canadian director Ruba Nadda. It is a romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard....	Won— Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...

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