May Ziadé is a French & Lebanese filmmaker and filmworker based in London.

She writes, directs & produces short films.

Browse the site to learn more about her last short Neo Nahda (a short coming-of-age film that deals with queer and feminist histories of the Middle East, the process of browsing and rediscovering lost archives, and how these can be a portal for the imagination and the realm of inner projections - how they can produce meaning beyond historical truths) & Mrs El Araby (a micro short experimental film that explores the space within which Arab women are allowed to exist in Western Media).

In 2023, May co-founded the production company Other People’s Films with Antonia Luxem.

”I make films and write stories to get closer to understanding the physical and emotional consequences of the cultural and societal pressures to conform. I’m drawn to characters who carry, for better or worse, a desperate desire to “fit in” - to find their place.”

photo credit: Marika Kochiashvili