Suhaib Gasmelbari (born 17 December 1979, Omdurman, Sudan) is a Sudanese film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer.

At the age of 16, Gasmelbari went into exile in the United Arab Emirates to avoid the forced military conscription implemented by the government of Sudan in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War.

He later briefly attended a university in Alexandria, Egypt, before moving to Tours, France in 2002 with the intention of learning French language and studying literature and philosophy.

[2] For his master's degree, Gasmelbari attempted to direct a fictional film, but had difficulty getting official permits and dropped the project.

[6] In 2019, Gasmelbari directed his first feature-length film, a documentary called Talking About Trees, which was produced by Marie Balducchi.