Saif Alsaegh

Saif Alsaegh (Iraq/USA) is a filmmaker born in Baghdad in 1991. His work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Iraq, growing up as part of the indigenous Chaldean minority in the 1990s and early 2000s, and the US landscape where he currently lives. After completing undergraduate studies in journalism in Iraq, he relocated to the USA and received an MFA in Film, Video, Animation and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2019). His films, such as Bezuna (2023), 1991 (2018), and Motorola Jockeys (2016), have screened in festivals and venues worldwide. His volume of poetry, Iraqi Headaches, was published in 2013. He lives and works in Los Angeles, where he is a lecturer at California State University, Fullerton.