Category: Shows
Watch my documentary Nice Bombs streaming for free
In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years.
“…a surprisingly warm first-person video diary… edited with grace and tact.” –Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips
“thoroughly engaging . . .offers a uniquely time-layered vision of the war.” –Variety
Nice Bombs screening at the Arab American National Museum
I’ll be giving an artist talk at the University of Michigan in Dearborn, and then will screen my documentary Nice Bombs at the Arab American National Museum on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 7pm.
Special thanks to my good friend Adam Sekuler for setting this up. I’ve never been to Dearborn and excited to connect with the students and the Arab community over there.
More information here: https://umdearborn.edu/events/arab-american-perspectives-filmic-visions-dearborn-usama-alshaibi
‘Soon’ playing at the Dragon Boat Film Festival
We play again in Denver, come check out the Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival, and watch our film Soon at Sie FilmCenter – H2 – Maglione Theater, March 11, 2023, at 11:00 AM
http://www.cdfilm.org
Group show in France
My film Allahu Akbar will be screening as part of a group exhibition titled:”Sur le motif” (“On the Pattern”) at the Center d’art Madeleine-Lambert in Vénissieux, France, from December 17, 2022 to February 25, 2023.
Denver Film Festival
Our short film ‘Soon’ will have its Colorado premiere at the Denver Film Festival, the largest film festival in the Rocky Mountain region.

‘Soon’ World Premiere
Our short film ‘Soon’ playing at Extremely Shorts Film Festival, a program of the Aurora Picture Show, on May 20 & 21, and with a virtual premiere May 27-29.
Click here for more information.

Usama Cinema
A selection of recent short films and older films.
Click here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/1622863
The Desire at COMING SUDDENLY, PASSING STRANGELY

There is a moment on every journey when it becomes impossible to quantify how much farther we have to go. The challenge comes in recognizing the amorphousness of expectations and the malleability of experience. What was before simply is no longer. Time moves ahead, often without explanation.
Curated by Megan Young at SPACES
More info: https://www.spacescle.org/exhibitions/2021/04/16/coming-suddenly-passing-strangely