FILM

We ____ The Weapon - Short Fiction - Writer and Director -  2025

• Produced by Bastian Klügel

  • Winner of the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Berlinale Talents 2019

  • Currently starting the distribution process

Embodied Chorus - Hybrid Documentary - Writer and Director - 2023

• Produced by Yara Abi Nader (Madame le Tapis - Lebanon), Julia Wagner (HEARTWAKE Films - Germany)

• Co-produced by Hélène Walland & Christian Neuman (Wild Fang Films - Luxembourg)

• Co-Written and Co-Directed with Danielle Davie

• World Premiere - IDFA (2023)

• Documentary Competition - Luxembourg City Film Festival (2024)

• ALFILM Arab Film Festival, Berlin (2024)

• Official Competition - FIDADOC Agadir International Documentary Festival (2024) (Special Mention of the Jury)

• Safar Film Festival (2024) (Screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art London)

• Queer Art Competition - Queer Lisboa (2024)

• Lebanese Film Festival of France (2024)

• Blonde Cobra Queer & Experimental Cinema, Cologne (2024)

• Doc Screens, Beirut (2025)

The Land - Short Documentary - Director -  2020

• Produced by Eliane Raheb (Beirut DC - Lebanon) & The Legal Agenda (Lebanon)

• Connecting Rivers - Theater im Bauturm, Germany (2024)

• Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival (2023)

• BIFED Panorama (2022)

• SAWA - Metropolis Cinema & Beirut DC

• Reef: Environment and Films (2020)

• Screened on Shasha

Chronic - Feature Fiction - Writer and Director - 2017

• Supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung in collaboration with Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

• Produced by Yara Abi Nader (Lebanon)

• Distribution: mec films (Germany)

• Lebanese Premiere - Beirut Cinema Days (2017)

• International Premiere - International Queer and Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam (2017)

• Mawjoudin Film Festival, Tunisia (2018)

• Queer Film Days, Split, Croatia (2018)

• Kooz Film Festival, Haifa, Palestine (2018)

Where There Is Nothing But Water - Short Fiction - Writer and Director - 2014

• Produced by Yara Abi Nader - Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA)

• Best Short Film - Arab Short Film Festival (2014)

• Honorable Mention - Berlin International Film Awards (2014)

• First Prize - European Film Festival, Lebanon (2014)

• Jury Special Mention - Signe de Nuit Portugal (2014)

• First Prize - NDU International Film Festival (2014)

Awakening - Short Fiction - Writer and Director-  2011

• Produced by Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA)

• Jury Special Mention - NDU International Film Festival (2012)

• Arab Short Film Festival (2012)

• European Film Festival, Lebanon (2012)

• Finalist - MADE in MED by Euromed Audiovisual
  

VIDEO 

ADHS - Director, Camera and Editor- 2024

• On-stage video installation & trailer for interdisciplinary dance performance ADHS - Anders Durch Halbe Sachen by Tina Streich

  • Barnes Crossing, Cologne (2024)

  • ACUD macht neu, Berlin (2024)
    
    

A Universal Hostility - Camera and Editor - 2024

• Dance trailer for Carla Jordão’s piece - Folkwang Dance Studio/Institute for Contemporary Dance

What Remains - Writer, Director, and Editor - 2020

• Short video on memories & impressions of the Lebanese Revolution 2019

  • Connecting Rivers - Theatre im Bauturm, Cologne (2023) 

  • Kabinett West, Kunst Haven, Cologne (2023)

  • Please come, Home - Group Exhibition, Cologne (2022)
    

There - Writer, Director, and Editor - 2017

• Produced by Yara Abi Nader (Lebanon) & Regard Indépendant (France)

  • Lebanese Film Festival, Beirut (2017) 

  • Regard Indépendant, Nice (2017)

Khaberni Keef  - Director - 2019

• Produced by Zeina Badran (Spotless Mind Films - Lebanon)

Khayef - Director -  2017

• Produced by Zeina Badran (Spotless Mind Films - Lebanon)

  • RAKSA Festival

  • Festival Travelling of Rennes

  • Beirut Cinema Days - Music Video Night

  • Performance Mix Festival - Abrons Arts Center, New York City

PERFORMANCE

Mold Will Eat It All

• Creature creation and embodiment - Sound  - Costume co-creation with Citra Amongsari

  • Rautenstrauch Joest Museum - Leaky Archive Exhibition Opening

  • Theater an der Ruhr - Secrets 1 Exhibition Opening
    
    

The Time Teller Has Returned

• Creature and Costume creation and embodiment - Music - Projection Video

  • Blonde Cobra Festival, Cologne (Dec 2024)

  • Junge Nacht, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (Jan 2025)

  • In-Visible Prides Festival by Mawjoudin International, Paris (Feb 2025)

  • Kunstmuseum Solingen (Proberaum Pina Exhibition, Mar 2025)
    
    

Actor/Performer in several short films and performances

CURATION

• Queer Journeys - Curator of queer film program for Cinema AL Fouad (Aflamuna.org)
  

• Rebellious Bodies - Curator of SWANA region queer film program for Cinema Queer Festival, Stockholm
  

• Connecting Rivers - Film program curator, Theater im Bauturm, Cologne
  

• Film Programmer - Soura Film Festival (Queer cinema from the MENA region)
  

• Cinema Without Borders Program - Participant, Movies That Matter Festival (Tailored training for festival organizers)
  

ACADEMIA & WORKSHOPS 

• Research Assistant - Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (2023-2025)

• Scriptwriting workshop conductor - Action for Hope - Summer 2021

• Lecturer - Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) (2014-2022)

• Teaching Film Directing, 

• Mentoring for Bachelor’s projects
  
  

• Lecturer - Antonine University (2019-2020)

• Teaching Film Analysis, 

• Mentoring for  Bachelor’s projects

• Filmmaking workshop for French Baccalaureate students (2009 - 2011)
  

EDUCATION

• Media Art Studies - Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (2021-2025) | DAAD Scholarship Holder
  

• Exchange Program, Film Writing and Directing - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (2015-2016) | Supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung
  

• Master’s in Filmmaking - ALBA, Lebanon (2011-2014) | Highest Distinction
  

• Bachelor’s in Audiovisual Studies - ALBA, Lebanon (2008-2011) | Highest Distinction
  

• French Baccalauréat in Human Sciences - Lycée Abdel Kader, Lebanon (1993-2008)
  

LANGUAGES

• Fluent: English, Arabic, French

• Basic: German, Spanish