Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah

Acting

Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah is an actress, writer and producer.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Awake poster
5.9

After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter. The question is, can Jill safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind.

Awake

2021

Meatball poster
NR

Plot N/A.

Meatball

2025

Revel poster
NR

The film follows three female artists -- an actress, a novelist and a photographer -- as they land at an elite women’s retreat on the Bay of Fundy.

Revel

2026

Pigs poster
NR

A short film following one woman's fantasy during a catering shift from hell.

Pigs

2020

Sugar Daddy poster
6.4

When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making venture sends her down a dark rabbit hole that forces her to grow up fast, shaping her music, and how she sees the world.

Sugar Daddy

2021

Body So Fluorescent poster
NR

Two friends have a falling out after a night of dancing.

Body So Fluorescent

2020

DEFUND poster
NR

Starring in and directing their own razor-sharp script, the Toronto team of Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Araya Mengesha play twins trying to navigate their own, and each other's, complex responses to both the lockdown and the fight for racial justice during the long hot summer of 2020.

DEFUND

2021

Really Happy Someday poster
NR

A rising musical theatre star struggles with his changing voice during his gender transition. With the help of a singing coach, he learns to trust himself, reclaim his career, and reconnect with the people he loves.

Really Happy Someday

2026

Save the Date poster
NR

A young gay millennial is forced to confront his complex feelings about his (sort of) ex when he finds himself invited to celebrate his ex’s engagement.

Save the Date

2022

BUNKER TIME! poster
NR

BUNKER TIME! is a nuclear nightmare years in the making: In the early 60s - the height of the Cold War - TV personality 'Auntie Pearle' wrote, directed and starred in a public-access show that aimed to prepare children for the nuclear apocalypse. Deemed too disturbing to air, the show was buried for years; only now, in even MORE disturbing times, is Bunker Time! fit to be unleashed on the public.

BUNKER TIME!

2025

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