Asim Abdulaziz Ahmed

Yemen
Asim Abdulaziz Ahmed is a Yemeni filmmaker, visual artist, and producer. In 2021, Asim directed his first short film 1941, which was exhibited at the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2022 and at the VA Museum in London in 2023. Asim served as the art director of the first Yemeni feature film to be selected at the Berlinale Film Festival 2023, The Burdened (2023). His work has also been featured in The Washington Post, ArtNews, i-D, and Hypebeast. Asim has been awarded various grants, including an AFAC Artist Support Grant in 2020, which helped him develop his photography project Homesick, and the 2021 Masarat grant from the British Council for his first experimental short film, 1941, as well as a Comra Academy grant for development for his current short film I Broke a Vase.