Meşhur Kimden Lebanon

A play of people and people from the Festival of Light Stars

Between Volubilis and Meknès, the sanctuary of Moulay Idriss, is the scene of one of the most important pilgrimages in Morocco. Sufi brotherhoods and simple pilgrims parade for 8 days on ecstatic rhythms.

Living in Beirut, a city where memory is obliterated by a post- war reconstruction process, I am constantly haunted by the fear of loss, the loss of traces of the loved ones and the places of personal and collective memory. Starting with images of my deceased husband, I embark in a journey into memory, filming my mother and my places of childhood, recollecting my father’s memory and filming Beirut’s historical strata and the city’s alienating present. Interweaving intimate and public spaces and times, past and present, I wonder if by preserving traces through cinema I could find consolation to loss.

The movie tells different stories of different married couples

a short about nothingness

Aspects of life associated with Lake Manzala.

A short essay film attempting to formally combine day-to-day props and itineraries in Beirut. These elements, whether formally gendered or transformed into something that is, all become part of a personal narrative where I am made aware of my gender. This experiment challenges the notion of the binary as I navigate through the city as both male, female, and neither.

A young man's car breaks down on his way to the city, which forces him to take a ride with an unknown woman that works in someplace close to his hometown.

The dream of a Saudi racer to participate in the most difficult race comes true.

a woman suffers from cancer

a brief look on poet Sultan Bin Farzan achievement

A woman suffering from the trauma of losing her doughtier.

A guy fights mysterious masked creatures with his own hands while having a mysterious voice of wisdom by his side.

Yazan, despite the obstacles he faced, tries to implement his plan of revenge for his father deceased some time ago.

A boy growing up in a port town in Morocco dreams of escaping into a different life than the one in store for him.

When the cartoons turn into reality, you live an adventure in a world made of the feelings of its painter.

After falling into another world, a girl tries to escape from her hallucinations, however some ideas lead to ironic conclusions.

On the 15th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, ‘Mirrors of Diaspora’ explores themes of exile, creativity, identity and war told through the lives of seven Iraqi artists living outside the country of their birth for close to half a century. The artists featured in this documentary belong to a group known as ‘Iraqi Artists in Exile’. Filmed over three decades, this ambitious project explores their challenges, failures and successes, both as artists and in their private lives: from the time they graduated from art school in the 1970s, working as street artists in the piazzas of Rome and Florence, to becoming well-known. The central question the film poses is: what are the consequences of spending most of one’s life in exile? At a time of unprecedented global migration when barely a day passes without a tragic story played out in the international media, ‘Mirrors of Diaspora’ contributes to greater understanding of one of the defining issues of our time.