Awards Best Intl short at sundance film festival, 2022 Best fiction at Tampere film festival, 2022 Audience Award, PCMMO 2022 Jury Prize, 26th Saguenay Short Film Festival, 2022 Oscar eligible short for year 2023 Synopsis A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in a construction site in Beirut unleashes his inner drag queen when…
Festivals JCC Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia, 2021 Beirut International Women’s Film festival, 2022 Synopsis In post-war Lebanon, Ida, a young Lebanese girl, flees her small village and her alcoholic mother and goes to the big city. There, she starts dating a European man not knowing what is in store for her. Production Russia, Lebanon Scoop…
https://vimeo.com/561789646 Festivals (Premiere) Berlinale 2021, Panorama Section Synopsis When sharp science student Asli meets charismatic Saeed in the mid 90’s, it’s love at first sight. The lovers marry, and Asli swears to be true to Saeed and never betray his secrets. Their future looks bright, but as the twenty-first century dawns, Saeed makes a decision…
Awards Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize 2018 Nomination in the Best Foreign Film Category Golden Globes, Cesar, Bafta, Academy Award Synopsis After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life…
Awards Berlinale 2017, Panorama Section, Audience Award Synopsis Damascus, Oum Yazan is trying desperately to keep together her family life whilst outside a war is raging. The family sits together around a large table at midday, everyone trying to make themselves heard above the cannonade of bombs and machine gun fire. There is hardly any…
Awards Cannes Film Festival ACID selection 2016 Synopsis In Wissam Charaf’s first feature film “Tombé du ciel”, we witness the story of Samir and Omar. The two brothers find themselves in an awkward situation when Samir makes a sudden appearance after being thought dead for a long time. Duration: 70 min Language: Arabic Production: France,…
Synopsis Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she’s a foreigner in her own country. But there’s still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who disappeared mysteriously during the civil war. Something happened…
Rue Huvelin
Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, filled with underground parties, sex, drugs and defiance, CIRCUMSTANCE is the story of two vivacious young girls — wealthy Atafeh and orphaned Shireen — discovering their burgeoning sexuality and, like 16 year-old girls anywhere, struggling with their desires and the boundaries placed upon…
