May is a French & Lebanese filmmaker and filmworker based in London. Her work explores the physical and emotional consequences of the cultural and social pressures to conform.

May just completed her first high-end short film Neo Nahda, which is supported by the BFI Network and British Council. It recounts the story of Mona, a young Arab woman in London who becomes obsessed with old photographs of women cross-dressing in the 1920s and goes on a feverish journey of uncovering lost histories and her own identity.

photo credit: Marika Kochiashvili