H ind Shoufani is an Oscar nominated, BAFTA winning, Palestinian/American director, writer, editor and poet.
She has produced, directed, and edited dozens of short documentaries, museum films, and video art installations across a 28-year career. Born in Lebanon, raised in many cities in the Arab world, and now living in Brooklyn, she was a Fulbright Scholar and holds an MFA in film directing and writing from New York University.
Hind produced and directed the award winning feature “Trip Along Exodus” in 2015 which screened in more than 40 countries, and her latest Palestinian film “Heavy Metal” opened in Tribeca Film Festival in 2023. Her recent experimental archive video-art short film, “Like Wind With An H” premieres in Spring 2026, and her poetry book “Dark Star Requiem” was published by Diode Editions in 2025. She co-wrote and edited the award winning short live action film, “The Present.”
Hind has helmed commercial projects for nonprofit and corporate clients and continues to publish creative essays, prose, and poetry in numerous international journals, magazines, and anthologies.
Born in Sidon, a city built to honor the divine feminine, Hind is a committed storyteller. She anchors the personal/collective memory of her rich ecosystems in literary & visual pieces, reinforcing the belief that we must reclaim & protect our truth, histories, & dreams–– as dispossessed people, Arab women, & uncensored artists.
Currently living in New York, she is in post production on her second feature film “They Planted Strange Trees”, while working as a freelance creative with various institutions, NGO’s, corporations & museums.
As she tends to new plants & memories in Brooklyn, she is greatly looking forward to all the beautiful work that is yet to be accomplished, on both sides of the world.