Asma Ghanem


Asma Ghanem or Asma Ghanem Miller, is a Syrian-born Palestinian visual artist, photographer, and experimental musician. She is best known for her short documentary film, Wall Piano.

Life and career

Asma Ghanem was born in 1991 in Damascus, Syria, and raised in a refugee camp with her family. Ghanem graduated from the International Academy of Art Palestine - IAAP and she received the Master of Fine Arts from the .
Ghanem started her career working on an experimental music project called Shams Asma. About this, she says:
In 2014, she produced her first experimental album titled Fi Alard.
In 2015, her Photography received special mention in the Palest’In & Out festival, a festival to promote talented young Palestinian artists that it held in Paris and organized by Institut Culturel Franco-Palestinien.
In 2016, her experimental music project called HOMELAND IS… won the 3rd Prize in the Young Artist Award of the Hassan Hourani Award.
In 2021, her documentary film Wall Piano was selected at the Tampere Film Festival, a short film festival held at Finland. In this festival, it received the special mention and the Audience Award.
She currently lives in Ramallah.

Awards

  • 2015: Special mention in the Palest’In & Out festival;
  • 2016: 3rd Prize in the Young Artist Award of the Hassan Hourani Award.
  • 2021: Special mention and the Audience Award of the Tampere Film Festival.

    Filmography