Arwa Aburawa is an artist filmmaker based in London. Her work explores race, nature and the legacies of colonialism. Her films are also guided by questions of justice and how those in the margins create vital spaces for resistance through knowledge production and alternative ways of being. She regularly works as a duo with Turab Shah.

Together with Turab Shah, she co-founded ‘Other Cinemas’ an artist-led project that uses film to bring people together to imagine and build just futures for Black and non-white communities.

Exhibitions and Collaborations Include:

Whitechapel Gallery, Jarman Awards 2025

LUX, 2023

Brent Biennial 2022

National Portrait Gallery

Humber Street Gallery

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival

Eye Want Change/ V&A

Awards & Grants Include:

Jarman Awards, Shortlisted in 2025

Best Short Doc, London Short Film Festival 2025

Best Short Doc, BlackStar Film Festival 2024

Film London Lodestar of 2022

BFI Doc Society Ripple Effect Fund 2021

Serpentine Gallery / Support Structures for Support Structures 2021

Arts Council England 2020

International Women’s Media Foundation Grant 2019