About Mohammed Alshareef

Mohammed Alshareef is a Palestinian filmmaker and cinematographer from Gaza, whose work blends survival, imagination, and resistance into powerful cinematic narratives.

His recent hybrid film “Hassan” — a documentary-fiction exploring forced displacement, grief, and the notion of return — was selected at the Amman International Film Festival and continues its journey at the El Gouna and Oran Film Festivals in 2025.

Mohammed’s internationally acclaimed short film “No Signal,” made entirely during wartime in Gaza, reached the **Oscar shortlist in 2025**, and received multiple international awards. The film captures the eerie silence of isolation, digital disconnection, and psychological collapse during bombardment — all through a single-take metaphorical scene. It has been screened at prestigious festivals including **Cairo, Pickering, and Amman**, and was praised for its minimalist brilliance and emotional resonance.

He is also a core filmmaker in the collective project **“From Ground Zero , a multi-voice cinematic initiative documenting the war in Gaza through 22 personal short films — raw, urgent, and deeply humane.

Currently, Mohammed is developing **“SUPER SILA”**, a hybrid docu-fiction inspired by his real-life experience as a father trying to protect his daughter Sila from the trauma of war. Through storytelling, shadow play, and cinematic fantasy, he transforms horror into resilience and fear into imagination. The film blends real footage, stop motion, and voiceover — a tribute to childhood and survival.

Alongside this, he is also working on a **feature fiction project** about a young Palestinian artist who forms a music band during the war, using art and sound as defiance — even as he struggles to survive displacement, grief, and daily life under siege.

Mohammed’s work is rooted in urgency and truth — not as political statement, but as a human necessity. His films are crafted under extreme conditions, often shot with minimal resources, yet they carry the weight of a people’s voice. Through cinema, he resists erasure, embraces memory, and invites the world to see Gaza not only through destruction, but through creation.