Ambarien Alqadar

Director at DIFF 2026

Ambarien Alqadar is a Chicago-based writer-director from New Delhi exploring girlhood, memory, and home. A Fulbright-Nehru Fellow with an MFA from Temple University, she teaches at DePaul University. Her feature project Nisa was selected for Torino Features Lab Next 2026 and won the Emerging Voice in Indian Cinema Award.