Mohanad Yaqubi
Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production outfit Idioms Film, as well as of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films which focuses on militant film practices. Recently, he was a resident researcher at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Gent, Belgium. Yaqubi’s filmography as a producer includes the documentary feature Infiltrators (dir. Khaled Jarrar, 2013), Suspended Time (several directors, 2013), and the narrative short Pink Bullet (dir. Ramzi Hazboun, 2014). He has co-produced several films including the narrative feature Habibi (dir. Susan Youssef, 2010), the short narrative Though I Know the River is Dry (dir. Omar R. Hamilton, 2012), and the feature documentaries Ambulance (dir. Mohammed Jabaly, 2016) and Ouroboros ( dir. Basma Sharif, 2017). Yaqubi’s first feature film Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory(2016) made its premiers at TIFF, Berlinale, Cinéma du réel, Dubai IFF, and Yamagata among fifty other premiers and screenings around the world.