Malaz Usta is a filmmaker, a designer and a visual artist, working with film, graphics, animation, editing, and sound. He was born in Damascus, Syria. He studied TV, and Cinema in Istanbul, and he obtained his Master's of Film degree at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. His works deal with different issues of displacement, and ideas of belonging, identity, home, and absurdity. His works have been screened and won awards at major film festivals such as IFFR, Ji.hlava international Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul International Film Festival among others.