Koullouna lil Watan (All For The Nation)

Synopsis:

According to the Lebanese nationality law Lebanese women who choose to marry a foreign man are denied the right to extend their citizenship to their husbands and children. Without citizenship, those families are denied social, civil and economic rights. This documentary is told through the intimate stories of five Lebanese families from different social, religious and economic backgrounds but whose lives and experiences are bound together by a discriminatory nationality law".

Official Selection:

* Patois film festival – New Orleans
* CMCA – Marseille

Screenings:

* Middle East: what cinema can do, les 3 luxembourg, Paris
* Babel Theatre - Beirut
* American University of Beirut
* L'assommoir - Montreal

I Come from a Beautiful Place:

Synopsis:

This documentary is a powerful insight into the lives of five refugees that ended up in Lebanon. The documentary is told through the intimate stories of five characters that come from different countries and backgrounds but whose life and experience as a refugee is intertwined. Through their stories the documentary manages to give a raw portrait of loss, fear, persecution and at the same time hope.

I Come from a Beautiful Place is a film about refugees in Lebanon but also about refugees anywhere in the world.

Official Selection:

* Documenta Madrid 2011
* Human Rights Festival – Lebanon
* Karama Human Rights Film Festival
* Arab Film Festival – Calgary
* Refugee Film Festival - Japan
* Arab Film Festival - Australia
* Festical Sole Luna - Palermo

A Summer not to Forget

Official selection:

* Montreal Human Rights Festival 2007, Canada
* Amal Festival, 2007 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
* Festival des Films du Monde 2007, Montreal, Canada
* 11th Annual Arab Film Festival, 2008 San Fransisco, Los Angelos, San Diego, California, USA
* New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival, 2009, New Orleans, USA
* Opening of the Jordan Short Film Festival 2007, Jordan
* Festival of Liberties, Brussels, Belgium

Awards:

* Best International Short Documentary, DOCNZ 2007 International Documentary Film Festival, New Zealand
* First Prize, Sole Luna Film Festival, 2009, Palermo, Italy

Screenings:

* Monot theatre, Beirut Lebanon
* Vienna (Cinema Urania) organized by the Diplomatic Arab Women's Forum
* University of Westminster Old Cinema, London
* ArteEast, New York, USA

Speech given at the closing ceremony Sole Luna:

I would like to thank you all for giving my documentary a chance to be seen here in Palermo.
"A summer not to forget" is a documentary on the Israeli war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Israel bombarded Lebanon for 34 consecutive days; 1,200 civilians were killed and 4,036 injured, more than one million people displaced, 78 bridges destroyed, 30,000 homes damaged, 57 collective massacres carried out and many more atrocities; while the international community of politicians, the so-called leaders, was watching and while we were waiting for the Israelis to put an end to this horrific war.
The western media failed to tell the story the way it happened so it was the anger of not seeing the truth that pushed me to make this film. It was my way of resisting and protesting the condition of war that was imposed on us.
I am not involved in any political party; I am just a human being who wanted, through this documentary, to show the world the horror of the Israeli war on Lebanon.
What happened in Lebanon in 2006 has been happening everyday for decades in Palestine. It is difficult to accept that despite all the advancement in science and technology, everyday, somewhere, the most cruel brutality is committed. It is not acceptable that in 2009, we are allowing all those crimes of war to happen in front of our own eyes.
I want to thank the festival to have had the courage to show such a documentary. I want to thank the jury for giving it an award and I thank you all for being here.

Maid in Lebanon

Screening:

* Special Jury Mention, Jeevika 2007: South Asia Livelihood Documentary Competition, India
* Masrah al Madina Beirut Lebanon
* UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL (UNAFF)
* Screenings at various schools and universities in Lebanon and in the Arab world

100% asphalt

Official selection:

* London film festival
* Montreal human right festival
* Locarno International Film Festival - festivaldu monde, Montreal,
* Documentary film festival, Australia, Milano Film Festival
* Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur
San Fransisco Arab Film Festival
many other festivals

Awards:

* Best Short Documentary Award - Down Under Festival – Australia, 2004
* Golden Award - Arab Film Festival - Rotterdam, Holland, 2003
* Jury's Prize - La Biennale (IMA) Institut du Monde Arabe – Paris, 2002