Chiha was born in Vienna, Austria on 3 March 1975.[1][2] He is of Hungarian and Lebanese origin,[2] and has lived in France since the age of 18.[4]
Chiha studied fashion design at ESAA Duperré in Paris and film editing at INSAS in Brussels.[2]
Career
After directing several short films and documentaries, his first feature film, Domain (2009), premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.[2] In 2014, he directed his second feature film, Boys Like Us. His documentaries Brothers of the Night (2016), and If It Were Love (2020) were both selected for the Berlin Film Festival.[2][5]