Personal Work

Hind has written, directed, produced and edited her own personal films over the years, as well as collaborating with other artists on independent projects.
By 2006, she completed a feature fiction film in NYC for her MFA thesis, titled “Carencia”, in addition to several dramatic 16mm and video shorts.

In 2013, she started filming an ongoing video-art poetry documentary centered on four Arab women poets who performed in Hind’s perfomance platform, The Poeticians, spanning thirteen years in the life of these talented poetesses– and counting.

In 2015, she produced the award winning “Trip Along Exodus”, a personal feature length multi-media documentary. Years in the making, the film traces 70-years of Arab history and the leftist Palestinian revolution through an intimate family journey with Hind’s father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, an academic scholar and leader.

In 2019, and inspired by the popular uprising in Lebanon, Hind and Iain Akerman created an ode to Beirut titled “We Take Back Mountains”– a revolution film blending documentary with poetry.

Between 2017- 2019, Hind produced and directed the production of her latest feature film “They Planted Strange Trees”, tackling issues of identity, rituals and ethnographic stories in the Christian communities in the Galilee, her homeland. The film, supported by AFAC and El Gouna Film Festival, and co-produced with Philistine Films, is currently in post production.

In 2020, Hind co-wrote and edited the 22-minute Palestinian fiction film, “The Present”, directed by Farah Nabulsi, and starring Saleh Bakri. The film won a BAFTA and was Oscar nominated among many other awards.

Hind produced and consulted on the documentary film “Heavy Metal” in 2023, chronicling the incredible teenage female weightlifting team in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan.

Her latest personal film is “Like Wind With An H“, a poetry and archive film, with co-creator Timothy Cleary. The 13-minute video art film is an homage to Palestinian children, centering the tragic story of Hind Rajab. Film release is expected mid 2026.