Daood Alabdulaa was born in the Syrian desert in 1994 to an indigenous Bedouin family, directed plays in Aleppo, and had to flee to Germany in 2014 due to his political protest during the civil war in Syria. He has been studying directing at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) since 2020 and devotes most of his films to social issues focusing on the Middle East. He also works as a festival programmer, hoping to make the voices and stories of BIPOC filmmakers more visible at film festivals. Filmography: Drawing From Memory, 2021, 4' / +963, 2022, 10' / Fata Morgana, 2023, 29'.