Cindy Chehab is a Lebanese filmmaker, producer, and film programmer whose work focuses on the identity of the SWANA region. Through a research-based ethno-biographical film practice, she explores the intimate and political intersections of personal and collective memory. She interrogates the notion of the “absent archive” and the mechanisms of erasure, questioning how what is missing, suppressed, or fragmented can still structure memory, history, and image-making.

She currently works as an archive researcher and producer on different documentary projects across Europe. In 2026, she participated in Eurodoc MED as a producer and is currently developing her first feature film in Dublin. She is also an Artist in Residence with Création en Urgence in Lesvos, Greece, where she works as a curator and collaborates with the local community through artistic and cultural practices.

In 2022, she co-founded a film and image culture space in Nicosia, Cyprus, a film club dedicated to critical engagement with film culture. Her curatorial interests center on militant and underrepresented documentary films. She holds a master's degree in Film Heritage and Cultures, completed across Brussels, Lisbon, Dublin, and Tallinn as part of the first edition of the FilmMemory program.