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Ruba Nadda is an internationally and critically acclaimed writer, director and producer living in Toronto. She has written and directed 17 films which include: Sabah (2005); Aadan (2004); Unsettled (2001); and I always come to you (2000); Blue turning Grey over you (1999), Black September (1999), I would suffer cold hands for you (1999), Laila (1999), Slut (1999), Damascus nights (1998), The wind  ...  show all 

Ruba Nadda is an internationally and critically acclaimed writer, director and producer living in Toronto. She has written and directed 17 films which include: Sabah (2005); Aadan (2004); Unsettled (2001); and I always come to you (2000); Blue turning Grey over you (1999), Black September (1999), I would suffer cold hands for you (1999), Laila (1999), Slut (1999), Damascus nights (1998), The wind blows towards me particularly (1998) So far gone (1998) Do nothing (1997), Wet heat drifts through the afternoon (1997), Interstate love story (1997) and lost woman story (1997). Sabah (2005) features Atom Egoyan and Simone Urdl as Executive Producers, and Arsinee Khanjian in the lead role. It had its worldwide premiere to rave reviews and sold out audiences at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Mongrel Media released Sabah in Canada on May 27th, 2005 to excellent reviews and enthusiastic audiences. Celluloid Dreams is acting as the foreign sales agent. Since Rotterdam Film Festival, Sabah has gone on to show in over 20 International Film Festivals: Museum of Modern Art in New York, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Prague) where Ruba also sat as a juror for the Competitive films, Commonwealth Film Festival (Manchester), Durban Film Festival (South Africa), Seattle International Film Festival (US), Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (Brazil), Armenian International Film Festival, Cairo International Film Festival, Haifa International Film Festival, Valladolid International Film Festival (Spain), NSI Film Festival, Washington Film Festival, Arab Film Festival (San Francisco Sabah is the opening film) and Warsaw International Film Festival (Poland); Hof Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival. Sabah is also the opening film for the Competition 28th International Women film festival of Creteil. Sabah has also sold to over 20 countries around the world for theatrical releasing and enjoyed a healthy run in theaters in Canada for 13 consecutive weeks. Arsinee Khanjian has since been nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the Genies. Ruba attended New York's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts in Film Production. She completed their summer program and upon her return to Toronto immediately began her prolific filmmaking career. Her 13 short films have been shown in over 500 film festivals in 5 years. She has had over 20 retrospectives of her work shown in numerous cities, including: Princeton University, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Vienna, Wurzburg, Austin, San Francisco, Regina, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Toronto. She is also a fiction writer, with short stories published in over 200 international journals, such as Riversedge Journal, West Wind Review 18th Anthology, The Sounds of Poetry, Blood & Aphorism, White Wall Review, Room of One's Own and Wascana Review. She is working on her next feature Cairo Time set in Egypt with Daniel Iron as producer with Killer Films acting as Executive producers.  hide