WRITER + FILMMAKER.

Elias Suhail is a British-Moroccan writer and filmmaker whose works are interested in narratives which compel a deeper questioning of our ethical and moral frameworks.

His work spans creative non-fiction, short fiction, theatre and film.

He has contributed several pieces to the New Statesman, had his work featured on BBC Sounds as part of the Margins to Mainstream with Michael Sheen podcast series, as well as performed to live audiences.

Elias’s directorial debut, Beneath a Mother’s Feet, completed in 2023, has won numerous awards globally, including the Golden Cave Award for Best Fiction Short at the Tangier Film Festival, as well as Best First-Time Filmmaker and the Audience Choice Award at the Lift-Off Season Awards 2023.