Taxi Driver
Amid crippling debt and relentless exploitation, New York City’s immigrant taxi drivers fight to reclaim their humanity and the American Dream, navigating a city-sanctioned medallion lending scheme that has left their community in financial ruin. CAAM’s Building Bridges Documentary Fund previously supported this film as a short and I provided funding for the feature.
CAAM has now supported the feature length version of Taxi Driver.
Untitled Islamophobia Documentary
A documentary mixtape deconstructs America’s love affair with Islamophobia by traversing the kaleidoscopic stories of those affected most.
Within Sight and Sound
Within Sight and Sound is a documentary that chronicles one year in the anti-war movement in the U.S., through the lens of an American Muslim community in Chicago, where thousands collectively protest for an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. History means both what happened, and what is said to have happened — alongside this chronicle we visually deconstruct the ways that power produces history and grapple with haunting echoes in the archives.
Inheritance
As her mother’s world recedes into silence due to degenerative hearing loss in India, a daughter—a first-generation immigrant in the U.S.—listens for what remains. How do traces of a home, a history and silence become parts of an inheritance from a mother and a motherland?
Noury
When lost 35mm film resurfaces, a Syrian-American filmmaker investigates her grandfather’s work, and a haunting question: was Syrian cinema’s forgotten chapter lost to time, or deliberately erased?
Iranian Hillbilly
Growing up in Arkansas, Andy masked his Iranian heritage to fit in, while his father and friend Bubba hid their pasts. As Andy’s father grapples with the aging process, they each find strength in breaking silence. Together, they unearth cultural histories, discovering vulnerability may be the most radical form of strength.
The Angriest Black Man in America
The Angriest Black Man in America explores Philadelphia attorney Michael Coard’s often defiant defense work and his tireless fight to save clients from death row. Through an unfiltered lens, the film captures Coard’s unapologetic advocacy, navigating the complex intersections of race, justice, and community resilience.
The Heart Grows Old in Autumn
A multi-generational tale following Rohingya refugees who survived a genocide in Myanmar as they establish a new life in the U.S. Spanning six years and three generations, the documentary follows the first Rohingya-Americans as they rebuild their lives, and are reborn from the ashes of genocide.
The Return
A Pakistani writer in Brooklyn is energized talking to his journalist friend from Queens as she documents anti-Muslim hate crimes in India and the resistance by young Muslim dissidents. He encourages her to confront her Islamophobic family, but her dismay about contemporary India forces him to face his demons: how he tried for years – against all odds – to build a life in India, as a refuge from both Pakistani authoritarianism and American Islamophobia.
The LA 8
The LA 8 is the story of how, in the shadow of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, eight immigrants were accused of aiding terrorists, and how their trial changed the meaning of surveillance and free speech in America. It’s a story of ambushed lives, unlikely alliances, and just how much history repeats itself.
The Miracle Man
In the ancient spiritual city of Fes, seven Muslims from the West visit a ‘Miracle Man’ believing for better or worse that you can buy, spend or vacation your way to enlightenment.
American Doctor
When three American doctors enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
World Premiere: Sundance 2026
Dar Marjana
When restaurant owner Kenza decides she no longer wants to run her family restaurant in Marrakech, her eldest daughter documents her family as they grapple with letting go, in a story about identity, legacy and a restaurant’s mysterious power over a family.
The Farewell Kiss
An exploration of the life and ‘radicalization’ of the man everyone knows but doesn’t know: from everyday Iraqi citizen to an internationally recognized figure.
Tanana
Nearly three decades after their siblings and other family members were brutally killed by Serbs in Srebrenica, Bosnia – Muharem and Zejna return to their native village to rebuild the family’s home that was destroyed during the war. The couple, and their daughter, Rialda, reflect on their shared sense of belonging to the land and their desire to reclaim it.
The Banker’s Daughter
The Banker’s Daughter follows filmmaker Samia Khan as she investigates the forced closure of BCCI–a global bank from Pakistan that was called the world’s largest criminal organization. Her investigation reveals how power works, and the devastating effects the scramble for power in a post Cold War world had on this institution, the Developing World, and her family.
Untitled Watermelon Pictures Documentary
A Gazan journalist uses their page to document unfolding atrocities.