Khaldiya Amer Ali is a Syrian filmmaker living in Za'atari Refugee Camp, Jordan. Her short film Another Kind of Girl (2015) premiered at Sundance, screened at Cannes, SXSW, won numerous awards, and was featured on the New York Times’ Op-docs. She won a 2015 Kassel Documentary Film Festival A-38 Production Grant. Her first feature-length film, Only the Ocean Between Us, supported by the Sundance Institute and Creative Capital, had its world premiere at Hot Docs 2021.