Alhasan Yousef is a Syrian documentary and fiction filmmaker and photographer based in Brussels, Belgium. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Audiovisuals from the Lebanese University in Beirut and a master’s degree in Documentary Film Directing from the DocNomads Program in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium.

Alhasan approaches his fictional works by portraying norms in a way that encourages viewers to analyse alternative truths. In his documentaries, he strives to draw on his subjectivity in an experimental and personal way recounting experienced social, political, and emotional narratives that reflect on identity, desires, and dislocation.

His short film, “Good Morning” screened at several international festivals, and his creative photography project ” When We Left Syria” was selected and exhibited at the Beirut

International Image Festival – BIF. His latest documentary “Locus Cordis” premiered at the

Visions du Réel Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland, and was officially selected at the Montreal

Documentary Film Festival – RIDM in Canada, Toronto Arab Film Festival, and Faito Doc Festival. Currently, Alhasan is developing his first feature-length documentary “Shaken – Cracks of Hope” inspired by the recent earthquake in his hometown as a Syrian living in exile.