FILM

• Director and Writer of “We ____ the Weapon”, a short fiction film in post-production - Produced by Bastian Klügel (Basian Klügel Films - Germany) - Winner of the Arab-German film prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung - Berlinale 2019

• Co-writer and Co-Director with Danielle Davie of “Embodied Chorus”, a hybrid documentary - Produced by Yara Abi Nader (madame le tapis - Lebanon) and Julia Wagner (HEARTWAKE films - Germany) co-produced by Hlene_walland & christian_neuman (Wild Fang Films - Luxembourg) -  World Premiere: IDFA 2023

• Camera work on the documentation of “Wundertal” a piece by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and Boris Charmatz (Terrain), currently in the editing phase.

• Scriptwriter with the collective “Scenario Beirut”. Scenariobeirut.com. November 2014 until the present. The latest project is the Hell’s Gate - Shahid platform. 

• Director of “The Land” a short documentary - Produced by Eliane Raheb (Beirut DC - Lebanon) and “The Legal Agenda” (Beirut, Lebanon)

• Director of “There”, a short experimental film - Produced by Yara Abi Nader (Lebanon) and Regard Independent (France)

• Director of “Khaberni Keef”, a music video for KHANSA - Produced by Zeina Badran (Spotless Mind Films - Lebanon)  

• Director of “Khayef” a music video for KHANSA - Produced by Zeina Badran (Spotless Mind Films - Lebanon)

• Director of “Chronic” (2016/2017). Fiction feature film supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung, in collaboration with Filmacademie Badden-Württemberg - Produced by Yara Abi Nader (Lebanon) - distribution: mec films (Germany)

• Writer and Director of “WHERE THERE IS NOTHING BUT WATER” a fiction short film – winner: Best short film in the Arab Film Festival 2014; Honour mention in Berlin International Film Awards 2014, First prize in the European Film Festival (Lebanon), First prize NDU international film festival. (And other awards)

• Participant in the “How can I translate my written film project into visual language” Workshop. Given by ARNE BRO and LOTTE MILK-MEYER from the National Film School of Denmark. Biddayyat in association with Screen Institute Beirut. October 2014.

• Director of several advertising spots. 

PERFORMANCE

• Mold Will Eat It All - Performance at the Rautenstrauch Joest Museum - Opening of the Leaky Archive - Not Allowed To Rot exhibition.

CURATION

• Participant in the Cinema without Borders program by the festival Movies that  Matter. Tailored training for festival organizers. 

• Curator of Rebellious Bodies - queer film program from the Arab region for the Cinema Queer Festival - Stockholm. 

• Film program Curator of Connecting Rivers at Theater im Bauturm, Cologne - Germany.

• Artistic Director of Cinema Al Fouad - Queer film festival in Lebanon. 

ACTIVISM

• Member of the collective - Mansion - Lebanon - an artist and activist collective from September 2019 until the present

ACADEMIA

• Lecturer at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA), since fall 2014. Film directing class. Mentor on bachelor final projects. 

• Lecturer at Antonine University (February 2019- September 2020). Teaching the film analysis class, and mentoring on f bachelor’s films with the cinema section students. 

EDUCATION

October 2021 – Present

Art Studies - KusntHochschule für Medien Köln

(Holder of the DAAD student scholarship)

October 2011 – February 2014

Masters in Filmmaking (with the highest distinction)

Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) – Lebanon

October 2008 – June 2011

Bachelor of Audio-visual (with the highest distinction)

Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) – Lebanon 

October 1993 – June 2008

French BAC Option: Human Sciences (Lebanese BAC equivalence)

Lycée Abdel Kader – Lebanon

LANGUAGES

Spoken, read, and written: English, Arabic, and French

Basic: German