Asena Nour

Asena Nour is an independent filmmaker based in London, exploring marginal and taboo subjects across narrative, documentary, and experimental film. Drawing on her Turkish, working-class, and diasporic perspective, her work interrogates migration, motherhood, violence, and care through the lens of everyday womanhood.

Her award-winning debut short, See You In The Dark (2023), premiered at Berlin British Shorts and sold out at festivals internationally. Her latest documentary, Human-Sized City (2024), commissioned by Sheffield DocFest and Prime Video, screened at Bertha DocHouse.

Her Arts Council-commissioned documentary My Mother's Mother (2022) screened at the BFI, LSSF, LDF, not/nowhere, and Stroud Film Festival. Her debut documentary, Homeland Trilogy (2017), tracing three generations of her family, is available to view on BFI Player and toured UK cinemas as part of T A P E Collective's But Where Are You Really From? season at the BFI.

She is currently in post-production with her NFTS X Prime Video-backed film, Blue Time, following a working-class immigrant family in debt, and conspiring in magical ways to break out of their scarcity.