Suha Araj

Suha Araj Trailers

Mashed Potatoes TrailerRosa TrailerPioneer High Trailer

SUHA ARAJ Suha Araj creates films that explore the displacement of immigrant communities. The Cup Reader, shot in Palestine, screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded The Next Great Filmmaker Award at the Berkshire International Film Festival and Baghdad International Film Festival. Araj followed with Pioneer High in 2015. She has received support for her work from the Sundance Film Festival, Torino Film Lab, Independent Filmmaker Project, Berlinale Talent Project Market, Center for Asian American Media and Cine Qua Non Lab. She is the 2018 recipient of Tribeca/Chanel Through Her Lens production funding for her new film Rosa.

Most Popular Suha Araj Trailers

Total trailers found: 5

Rosa Trailer

Rosa Trailer (2020)

20 August 2020

While working at her aunt’s flower shop, Rosa takes her job underground when she begins a side business of shipping undocumented bodies to their home countries for burial.

Pioneer High Trailer

Pioneer High Trailer (2014)

01 January 2014

In January of 1969, seventeen-year-old Hala emigrates with her family from Palestine to Michigan and attends a public high school with a dress code wherein girls cannot wear pants.

Mashed Potatoes Trailer

Mashed Potatoes Trailer (2024)

19 October 2024

While prepping for a Friendsgiving potluck, an Arab couple argues over the merits of a well quoted journalist after the 9/11 attacks.

I Am Palestine Trailer

I Am Palestine Trailer (2003)

01 May 2003

An evocative video collage of the Palestinian experience from director Suha Araj.

The Cup Reader Trailer

The Cup Reader Trailer (2013)

19 April 2013

Warde, shamed as a young girl yet renowned in Palestine for her mystical seeing and matchmaking lives with her sister Jaleleh and reads the fortunes of her clients.