Rame Ibrahim is a Palestinian Canadian film director born in Syria. His film work explores his very rich background, having lived in many places around the world. He engages in topics like refuge, politics, freedom of speech, the Palestinian diaspora, etc.
He studied his B.A. in Istanbul, Bahçeşehir University, where he produced, wrote, and directed his first narrative short film, “Eid,” about his grandmother. His latest work, Ahmed, which talks about the expectations refugees have from governing bodies, got selected in the New York Shorts Film Festival. He is currently working on his third short film, “Prisoner,” about intergenerational trauma as part of his thesis for his M.F.A. degree in Film Production & Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He has received the full CGS-M SSHRC grant for his research and towards the production of “Prisoner.”