Born in Damascus, Qutaiba Barhamji is a director and film editor. He has edited more than 60 films in 22 languages, including Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025), which won the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, and Four Daughters (2023), which was selected for the Official Competition at the Festival de Cannes and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film;  Lana Daher’s Do You Love Me (2025), which was selected for Venice; and Anna Hints’s Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023), which was named Best Documentary at the European Film Awards and won the World Cinema—Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival). Barhamji also edited How to Save a Dead Friend (2022) and Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege) (2021), both of which were selected for Cannes, as well as Still Recording ( 2018), which took the Grand Prize in the Settimana Internazionale della Critica at Venice.
He is the director of Gevar’s Land (2020) which was selected for Étoile de la SCAM, Cinéma du Réel, and the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, and the short film Wardé (2016), which was produced for Arte France.