---
name: "Elhum Shakerifar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elhum-shakerifar"
fi1m_id: "elhum-shakerifar"
imdb_id: "nm3455799"
tmdb_id: 1508026
wikidata_id: "Q84263756"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T23:30:47.263582+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Elhum Shakerifar

## Identity

Elhum Shakerifar

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elhum-shakerifar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elhum-shakerifar
- **IMDb ID:** nm3455799
- **TMDB ID:** 1508026
- **Wikidata ID:** Q84263756
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84263756, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3455799/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1508026

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Also known as:** إلهام شاكريفار, إلهام شاكريفر
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84263756, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3455799/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1508026

## Biography

Elhum Shakerifar is a British producer, curator, poet and translator. She runs the London-based production company Hakawati and has worked extensively on documentary films, often with a focus on the SWANA region.

She produced *A Syrian Love Story* (2015), directed by Sean McAllister, which received a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Other credits include *Even When I Fall* (2017), *A Northern Soul* (2018) and *Ayouni* (2020). She has received a BFI Vision Award and the Women in Film & TV Factual Award.

Shakerifar holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, completed in 2006. She has curated programmes for the London Film Festival, Shubbak, the Barbican and the BFI, and serves on the board of the Palestine Film Institute.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, elhum.net, gold.ac.uk, southbankcentre.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Syrian Love Story* (2015), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-syrian-love-story.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ayouni* (2020), Producer
- *Island* (2018), Producer
- *Even When I Fall* (2018), Producer
- *Of Love & Law* (2017), Producer
- *Almost Heaven* (2017), Producer
- *A Syrian Love Story* (2015), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/a-syrian-love-story.md)
- *The Production of the World*, Producer

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Documentary 2015: European Film Award for Best Documentary (nominated), for *A Syrian Love Story*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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