Jumana Issa

Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Costume Designer, Cinematographer, Actor

Email: jumana.isabella@gmail.com
Website: www.jumana-issa.com
WEBSITE: sinnsiehtsi.ch

Born in 1994, she is Swiss-Palestinian filmmaker. She studied film at the ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) and graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor's degree with a focus on screenwriting. Her graduation film IT MUST (2021), co-directed with Flavio Luca Marano, premiered at the 74th Locarno Film Festival and won the Best Swiss Newcomer Award. In 2022 Issa and Marano founded their production company Sinn sieht sich Filmproduktion GmbH. She lives and works in Zurich.

Filmography
(a selection)

Director

2023: Find a Film! by Coline Confort, Slava Doytcheva, Federico Frefel, Alessandro Garbuio, Andrea Gatopoulos, Ambra Guidotti, Jumana Issa, Zhenia Kazankina, Bohao Liu, Diego Andres Murillo, Chiara Toffoletto
2023: Geldfluss – Find a Film! by Jumana Issa
2021: Dried Out, We Had Forgotten Our Speech by Jumana Issa, Tina Reden
2021: Es muss by Jumana Issa, Flavio Luca Marano

Screenwriter

2023: Geldfluss – Find a Film! by Jumana Issa
2021: Dried Out, We Had Forgotten Our Speech by Jumana Issa, Tina Reden
2021: Es muss by Jumana Issa, Flavio Luca Marano

Cinematographer

2021: Dried Out, We Had Forgotten Our Speech by Jumana Issa, Tina Reden

Editor

2023: Geldfluss – Find a Film! by Jumana Issa
2021: Dried Out, We Had Forgotten Our Speech by Jumana Issa, Tina Reden
2021: Es muss by Jumana Issa, Flavio Luca Marano

Actor

2022: Heart Fruit by Kim Allamand

Costume Designer

2021: Mona by Julie Olympia Cahannes
2018: Bon appétit by Alan Sahin

Awards

(a selection)

: Locarno, Locarno Film Festival, Best Swiss Newcomer Award (Pari di domani - Concorso nazionale) (Winner) in Es muss

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