Jessica Beshir
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.
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Films (16)
in love, in memory
2026 · Executive Producer
Ladan
2023 · Director
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
2021 · Translator, Producer
Faya Dayi
2021 · Sound Recordist, Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Writer
Kings
2018 · Director
Heroin
2017 · Screenplay, Director, Producer, Additional Photography
Hairat
2017 · Producer, Sound Recordist, Director of Photography, Director
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
2015 · Narration (voice)
Zemene
2014 · Translator
Distortion
2006 · Gerry
Journey to Lasta
2004 · Selam
107 Street
2004 · Andrea
Until the Night
2004 · Partygoer
200 American
2003 · Model
Man Woman Film
1999 · Ali's girl
