Noura Kevorkian
Ontario
Noura Kevorkian is a Peabody Award–winning Lebanese-Canadian filmmaker whose work blends documentary, hybrid, and narrative forms with a singularly poetic visual language. As a writer, Director cinematographer and editor, she brings a deeply crafted aesthetic to all her films, shaping emotionally resonant stories through her unmistakable visual and narrative style.
Noura’s films have screened at major international festivals including IDFA, Karlovy Vary, Hot Docs, Munich, Dubai, Carthage, Durban, Rome, and numerous others across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia.
Noura made her directorial debut with the acclaimed documentary Veils Uncovered, a bold portrait of the veiled women of Damascus that won Best Documentary NFB Award at ReelWorld and Yorkton, and premiered in Official Competition at IDFA.
Her first feature, the Canada–Lebanon historical documentary Anjar: Flowers, Goats & Heroes, explores the Lebanese Civil War through the eyes of a young girl coming of age amid conflict.
Noura’s follow-up film, the Canada–Lebanon drama-documentary hybrid 23 Kilometres, premiered to critical praise in Official Competition at Karlovy Vary, followed by Dubai and Munich. This immersive, experiential work showcases her distinctive visual style, offering a rare, embodied portrayal of one man’s life with Parkinson’s disease.
Her most recent film, the Canada–Qatar-Lebanon feature documentary Batata, is her most ambitious to date. Winner of the Peabody Award, the film also earned the Oscar-qualifying Best Feature Documentary at Carthage, the Amnesty International Award at Durban, and placed in the Audience Top 10 at Hot Docs. Spanning a decade, Batata captures the extraordinary resilience of a fiercely determined unmarried Syrian woman whose life transforms from migrant farm worker to refugee - rendered through Kevorkian’s intimate, lyrical, and deeply humanistic lens.
Noura is currently developing her debut narrative feature, Syrian Dancer, and working on the screen adaptation of The Taste of Longing, an award-winning non-fiction book that chronicles the overlooked story of a neurodivergent Canadian WWII female war hero.
noura@sixisland.com
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