Gaya Jiji (born 1979) is a Syrian filmmaker working in Paris.

Gaya Jiji was born in 1979 in Damascus, Syria.

She earned a master's degree from Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

[2] Her feature film debut was My Favourite Fabric (2018), an exploration of female sexuality and self-expression set in Damascus in 2011.

Manal Issa plays Nahla, who is rejected by a potential husband in favor of her sister and seeks refuge in a brothel.