In a conversation with YourStory Gulf Edition, Nayla Al Khaja talks about her journey into filmmaking.

Nayla Al Khaja was all of 8 years of age when she saw the Bollywood classic Boot Polish. Central to the film was a story about young siblings losing their parents—a feeling that tugged Nayla's heartstrings.

“Everything about the movie, the largesse, the grandeur, music, black and white cinematography, and emotions got to me," she recalls. I saw the movie 12 times, at least… It left me heartbroken...I didn’t want to see siblings be separated. The environment at my home was rocky as my parents were going through a separation, and I would soon be separated from my older brother in two years. Two of my films are from the perspective of the brother, as sometimes I feel he carried the bigger burden of the separation, being the older sibling,” she told YourStory Gulf seated in her home office in Dubai, where she and her editors also edit her films.

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