Hana Elias



Hana Elias is a filmmaker, journalist, and amateur wheat farmer working between Palestine and New York. 

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Where The Wind Blows
Documentary short, 2025


Hana Elias, Director and Editor
Anakha Arikara and Asmahan Bkerat, Producers
Mahdokht Mahmoudabadi, Editor and Writer
Omar Jabareen, Additional cinematography

Awards
If/Then Shorts X Redford Center Nature Connection pitch 2024
Best Short Documentary, Arab Film and Media Institute

Trailer
After building a life in New York City, Nassib returns to his Palestinian hometown of Shefa-’Amr after 50 years to revive an ancestral garden. Filmmaker Hana captures her whole family’s search for belonging as she intimately films the rituals and practices around their first olive harvest.


Screenings 2025: Doc NYC, Big Sky Film Festival, London Palestine Film Festival, Karama Human Rights Film Festival, Braziers International Film Festival, Corto Fieno, Hot Springs Short Documentary Festival