Zaina Bseiso is a filmmaker and curator working primarily in documentary and experimental cinema. Her interests revolve around diasporic relations to land, hope, and potentialities. She explores Return as a notion that conflates and contracts sounds, images, and ways of existing in the world. Her practice mainly traverses among Palestine, Egypt, Cuba, Mexico, and the US. Her work has screened at Curtas Vila do Conde, Guanajuato, RIDM, DokLeipzig and Ajyal Film Festival, among others. She is co-founder of Bahía Colectiva, a community of filmmakers that collaborate in practice and curation. Zaina was also part of the programming team at the Points North Institute/Camden International Film Festival and a 2022 Sundance Humanities Sustainability fellow. She received her Master’s degree in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts.