Nijla Mu'min

Nijla Mu'min

Nijla Mu'min is a writer and filmmaker from the East Bay Area. Her work is informed by poetry, photography, fiction, and dance. Named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2017, she tells stories about Black girls and women who find themselves between worlds and identities. Her short films have screened at festivals across the country. In 2014, she was selected for the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive, and she was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2014 Urbanworld Film Festival, for her script Noor. Nijla attended the 2017 Sundance Institute Sound and Music Design Lab for Jinn. Her short film Dream was acquired by Issa Rae Productions for online streaming in 2017. Her debut feature film, Jinn, starring Zoe Renee, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Simone Missick, premiered at the 2018 South By Southwest Film Festival, where she won the Special Jury Recognition Award for Screenwriting. Source: https://www.nijlamumin.com/about

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Nijla Mu'min Movies

  • 2012
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    Two Bodies

    Two Bodies

    1 2012 HD

    A mother-daughter relationship is explored in this touching drama.

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  • 2018
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    Jinn

    Jinn

    5.417 2018 HD

    Summer is a carefree teenage girl whose world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person. At first resistant to the faith, she begins to reevaluate her identity after becoming attracted to a Muslim classmate, crossing the thin line between physical desire and piety.

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  • 2018
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    Jinn

    Jinn

    5.417 2018 HD

    Summer is a carefree teenage girl whose world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person. At first resistant to the faith, she begins to reevaluate her identity after becoming attracted to a Muslim classmate, crossing the thin line between physical desire and piety.

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  • 2015
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    Dream

    Dream

    1 2015 HD

    A young girl strives to rekindle her parent's dwindling romance at their desert town's annual carnival, and learns hard lessons about love in the process.

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  • 2015
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    Dream

    Dream

    1 2015 HD

    A young girl strives to rekindle her parent's dwindling romance at their desert town's annual carnival, and learns hard lessons about love in the process.

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  • 2021
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    Black Prom

    Black Prom

    1 2021 HD

    A Black girl’s dreams of going to the prom are disrupted when she and her boyfriend are faced with a hostile police encounter.

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  • 2021
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    Black Prom

    Black Prom

    1 2021 HD

    A Black girl’s dreams of going to the prom are disrupted when she and her boyfriend are faced with a hostile police encounter.

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  • 1970
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    Deluge

    Deluge

    1 1970 HD

    After witnessing the mass drowning of her friends and struggling with the decision not to jump in, 15-year old Tiana must decide if she will join the order of black mermaids that protect the waters where her friends rest.

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  • 2025
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    Water Angel

    Water Angel

    1 2025 HD

    Jawny and Jamal are elated to be expecting their first child. But when Jawny is denied urgent care after alarming pains, the consequences soon become life-threatening. In the aftermath of tragedy, she finds a new path to fight for change.

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  • 2025
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    Water Angel

    Water Angel

    1 2025 HD

    Jawny and Jamal are elated to be expecting their first child. But when Jawny is denied urgent care after alarming pains, the consequences soon become life-threatening. In the aftermath of tragedy, she finds a new path to fight for change.

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  • 1970
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    Noor

    Noor

    1 1970 HD

    In the midst of an unexpected tragedy, a Black woman develops a deep connection to an Arab man who works in her neighborhood bodega.

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  • 1970
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    8.118 1970 HD

    In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the unlikeliest success stories in American music history.

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 HD

    Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.

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  • 1970
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    7.421 1970 HD

    A look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.

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