Randa Ali is a filmmaker and producer working between Egypt & the USA. Her work explores themes of alienation, defeat and the desire to connect in a constantly changing world through stories of individuals and their relationship with places. In 2024, her short film Mango, an exploration of loss and grief through a daughter-father relationship, premiered in the official competition of the 46th Clermont-Ferrand Int'l Short Film Festival. For her film Kingdom of Strangers (2022), she was awarded the ARRI Franz Weiser. The film also received the Jury awards at Toronto Arab Film Festival, Cairo Int'l Shorts Film Festival and Beirut Shorts. She is a graduate of UCLA's Directing MFA program, where she was a recipient of a full-ride scholarship offered to female filmmakers from the Arab world. Randa is currently developing her first feature film, Rock, Paper, Sea, a coming-of-age story exploring girlhood in early 2000s Egypt.
