Mohanad yaqubi biography

Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house Idioms Film. Yaqubi is also one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films, which focuses on militant film practices, and the Palestine Film Institute, which focuses on supporting, promoting, and preserving Palestinian cinema.

He has been a resident researcher at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Gent, Belgium since 2017. His research focuses on the relation between politics, aesthetics and cinema with archival structures of transnational solidarity movements.

Yaqubi strives to re-think imperfect archives as a mechanism to bridge living memories. 

His first feature film Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016) made a festival tour, showing at TIFF, Berlinale, Cinéma du réel, Dubai IFF, and Yamagata among fifty other screenings around the world.

His second feature film, R 2