Yusuf Studio

a project by Khizr Studio

Yusuf Studio makes beautiful films for the Muslim community.

We believe cinema and film is the new printing press, and this time we can’t afford to be left behind.

Click here for more info.

Client 001 - World Wars Muslim Memorial Trust

A piece of film produced about the Muslims who served in WW1 and WW2.

Client 002 - Paul Williams

A film made for Paul Williams and Hasan Spikers new academy, Blogging Theology Academy,
where one can study at a deep academic level about comparative religion.

Client 003 - Isam Bachiri

This music video for renowned Danish singer-songwriter Isam Bachiri (formerly Outlandish),
communicates Isam’s frustrations with the censorship surrounding the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

Client 004 - Azeemi Silsila

Adam Day 2022.

Client 005 - Ramadan Pavilion at Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Atmosphere, love, capturing the heart of Ramadan.

Coming soon
Client 006 - Kenley Group

“Despite its early advances, [the Muslim world] lost its civilizational momentum partially due to stagnation in information and cultural dissemination.” - Marshall Hodgeson

Please get in touch, we would love to work with you to offer beautiful narratives of Islam to the world,
and to build the confidence of the Muslim community in their businesses, organisations, and artists.

@itsyusufstudio

mohammed@khizr.co.uk

“While Europe saw an explosion of books and ideas in the wake of the printing press, the Muslim world largely remained oral, manuscript-based, and elite-driven in its communication.” - Elizabeth Eisenstein

...as such, we believe Islamic culture and stories haven’t been honoured to the same degree as narratives and ideas from the non-Muslim world. This has caused the dominant narratives in the Muslim world to not originate from there, but in fact from Europe and North America.

Today’s struggles to reclaim Muslim narratives through film, media, literature, and social platforms are a direct response to centuries of underrepresentation and misrepresentation, and we are now playing catchup.

The West industrialised its printing. The Muslims spiritualised their manuscripts. In the race of ideas, the permanence of the printing press triumphed over the impermanence and beauty of manuscript and oral tradition, and the mass communication of the printing press dominated.

Yusuf Studio is going to change this.

Yusuf Studio is changing this.

Yusuf Studio was founded by Mohammed Khizr (M.Arch, MLA), who has also founded Khizr Studio, an architectural storytelling studio.

Mohammed Khizr’s accolades:
- Islam Channel Digital Business of the Year Award Finalist, Khizr Studio (2025)
The Khizr Studio Podcast Series (2024)
- Founder of Palestine Collective (2023)
- Visiting Lecturer of Architectural Storytelling and Film at The University of Sheffield, Arts University Bournemouth (since 2022)
- Shortlisted RIBA Stirling Prize Film Tender (2022)
- Winner of The University of Sheffield's Robert Henry Memorial Award for use of Film and Animation to communicate Architecture + Landscape Architecture (2021)
- Started Squire & Partners Film Studio (2019)

Khizr frequently guest lectures Masters students at the University of Sheffield on architectural storytelling.