Maissa Lihedheb is a German-Tunisian filmmaker, writer, and curator working between Germany, Tunisia, and the U.S. Born to Tunisian immigrant parents in Germany, she brings questions of identity, representation, and power to the center of her storytelling. She has directed and produced 13 short films, a feature documentary (Ramadan in a Day for SWR/ARD), and a television series (Wir for ZDFneo). Her work has screened widely at international festivals—Hundefreund premiered at Tribeca and the BFI London Film Festival, won Best Film at Interfilm Berlin, and was nominated for the German Short Film Award, while Ramadan in a Day received the Golden Palm at the Saudi Film Festival. Most recently, she produced New York Day Woman (Tribeca 2025) and directed Samra’s Dollhouse (Palm Springs ShortFest 2025). In 2024, she also directed a segment for a Coldplay music video, expanding her work into the realm of global pop culture.She is also the founder of the BIPOC Film Society in Berlin, a collective dedicated to promoting intersectionality and challenging dominant perspectives in cinema. Her films, marked by dark humor, feminist horror, and sociopolitical critique, reframe whose stories get told and how.
