
Directing
Community Rating
4.5
TMDB estimate
Born in
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Jessica Beshir is a Mexican-Ethiopian documentary filmmaker, producer and cinematographer based in Brooklyn. She graduated in Film Studies and Literature at UCLA, after which she made several internationally acclaimed short films. The short documentary He Who Dances on Wood (2016) was selected for Hot Docs and won Best International Documentary Short at Edmonton Film Festival and the Jury Award at Anchorage International Film Festival. Hairat (2017) premiered at Sundance, was screened at IFFR and IDFA and won several awards at various other festivals. Beshir is a recipient of the Sundance Documentary Film Program, Jerome Foundation and NYFA Fellowships. Faya Dayi (2021) is her feature debut.

Ladan
as Director
2023

IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
as Translator, Producer
2021

Faya Dayi
as Sound Recordist, Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Writer
2021
Kings
as Director
2018
The Gift
as Director, Creator
2017

Heroin
as Screenplay, Additional Photography, Director, Producer
2017

Hairat
as Producer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist, Director
2017

He Who Dances on Wood
as Producer, Director, Director of Photography
2016
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
as Narration (voice)
2015
Zemene
as Translator
2014

The DL Chronicles
as Sarah Thomas
2007

Distortion
as Gerry
2006
Journey to Lasta
as Selam
2004
107 Street
as Andrea
2004

Until the Night
as Partygoer
2004

200 American
as Model
2003
Man Woman Film
as Ali's girl
1999