Her work focuses on war torn countries (Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Yemen, Lebanon) where she portrays people caught in the midst of political turmoil. Katia is also a fiction screenwriter. In 2009, she directed her first short film, In their Blood, which won the France 2 award at the Brest film festival. She is now developing her first feature film, Days of Tyranny (working title), a French-Canadian production, which is set in Iraq during Saddam Hussein dictatorship.