Suha Araj creates films that explore the displacement of immigrant communities. The Cup Reader, shot in Palestine, screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded The Next Great Filmmaker Award at the Berkshire International Film Festival and Baghdad International Film Festival. Suha followed with Pioneer High in 2015. She has received support for her work from the Sundance Film Festival, Torino Film Lab, Independent Filmmaker Project, Berlinale Talent Project Market, Center for Asian American Media, and Cine Qua Non Lab. She is the 2018 recipient of Tribeca Chanel Through Her Lens production funding for her film Rosa, which was awarded at Blackstar and Woodstock and aired on HBO. She is a Creative Capital (2021), Jerome Foundation (2022) and two-time New York Foundation for the Arts grantee. Her latest film, Mashed Potatoes, premiered at the 2024 Woodstock Film Festival and is currently on the festival circuit.

Suha was a participant in Cine Qua Non Lab’s 2018 Script Revision Lab with Khsara (Pickled), and in the 2020 Storylines Lab with Bowling Green Massacre.

Bowling Green Massacre — When teenage basketball star Louisa lies to her immigrant parents about seeing a rated R movie in 1989, she never imagines it would lead to her and her friends being sucked into a time portal in the Mall Food Court. Released 31 years later in 2017 but trapped in the now abandoned mall cinema during the wake of the fictitious Bowling Green massacre, they are sure the world outside has ended but must solve this mystery and find a way out of the mall and into the surrounding cornfields.