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
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IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
as Translator, Producer
2021
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Faya Dayi
as Sound Recordist, Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Writer
2021
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Kings
as Director
2018
—The Gift
as Director, Creator
2017
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Heroin
as Screenplay, Additional Photography, Director, Producer
2017
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Hairat
as Producer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist, Director
2017
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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
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The DL Chronicles
as Sarah Thomas
2007
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Distortion
as Gerry
2006
—Journey to Lasta
as Selam
2004
—107 Street
as Andrea
2004
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Until the Night
as Partygoer
2004
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200 American
as Model
2003
—Man Woman Film
as Ali's girl
1999
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