---
name: "Suad Bushnaq"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/suad-bushnaq"
fi1m_id: "suad-bushnaq"
imdb_id: "nm6883900"
tmdb_id: 1799471
wikidata_id: "Q56600016"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "27 February 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-21T02:13:43.020591+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."
---

# Suad Bushnaq

## Identity

Suad Bushnaq

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/suad-bushnaq
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** suad-bushnaq
- **IMDb ID:** nm6883900
- **TMDB ID:** 1799471
- **Wikidata ID:** Q56600016
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suad_Bushnaq, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56600016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6883900/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1799471

Composer. Born 27 February 1982 in Amman, Jordan.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 27 February 1982, Amman, Jordan
- **Also known as:** Suad Lakišić Bushnaq
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suad_Bushnaq, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56600016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6883900/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1799471

## Biography

Suad Bushnaq, also credited as Suad Lakišić Bushnaq, is a Jordanian-Canadian film and concert composer of Bosnian, Palestinian and Syrian heritage. She was born in Amman, Jordan, and studied at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus before earning a Bachelor of Music in Composition from McGill University. She is based in Toronto.

Bushnaq has scored more than sixty film and television projects. Her credits include the BAFTA- and Emmy-winning series *Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough* (2024), the Syrian series *Al Batal (The Hero)* (2025), *Flight 404* (2024), *Hanging Gardens* (2022), *From the Ashes* (2024), *Yunan* (2025) and the documentary *American Doctor* (2026). She has received two Hollywood Music in Media Awards, two Canadian Screen Music Awards and four Canadian Screen Award nominations.

*Sources: ascap.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *American Doctor* (2026), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/american-doctor.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *American Doctor* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/american-doctor.md)
- *Pour the Water as I Leave* (2026), Music
- *Thunder of Clouds: What Women Can Do* (2026), Music
- *Yunan* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Inheritor of secrets* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *What Now?* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *The Hero* (2025), series, Original Music Composer
- *Hôtel Beyrouth* (2024), series, Original Music Composer
- *Basma* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Queen Tut* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Secret World of Sound* (2024), series, Original Music Composer
- *Mountain Boy* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Flight 404* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *From the Ashes* (2024), Music
- *Crashing Eid* (2023), series, Music
- *EITR* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Blood Like Water* (2023), Music, Original Music Composer
- *Montréal Girls* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Corvine* (2022), Music
- *Salma's Home* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Lovesick in the West Bank* (2021), as Compositor
- *Jasmine Road* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *I Do, or Die: A Killer Arrangement* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Greta Follows Rivers* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Dead Die Once* (2018), Sound
- *The Borrowed Dress* (2018), Music
- *(Out)caste* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Mp3*, Music

## Gallery

- ![2019 Slaight Music Resident Suad Bushnaq at a Canadian Film Centre event in Los Angeles.](https://film.one/media/person/96659/gallery-1243a5e142fa.jpg) 2019 Slaight Music Resident Suad Bushnaq at a Canadian Film Centre event in Los Angeles. — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Suad_Bushnaq_at_a_Canadian_Film_Centre_event_in_Los_Angeles_%2833560764008%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Suad Bushnaq Photo (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/96659/gallery-e7582b87a1da.jpg) Suad Bushnaq Photo (2015) — Suad Bushnaq, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Suad_Bushnaq3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Suad Bushnaq performs. Photo: Sam Santos / George Pimentel Photography. (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/96659/gallery-a7dd75b92c11.jpg) Suad Bushnaq performs. Photo: Sam Santos / George Pimentel Photography. (2019) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/The_2019_Slaight_Music_Residency_Showcase_%2848044294401%29.jpg/1280px-The_2019_Slaight_Music_Residency_Showcase_%2848044294401%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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