Tag: Mounia Akl

A Sad and Beautiful World | Review

No Man is an Island: Aris Explores Childhood, Couplehood and Parenthood with Flip Book Speeds Lebanese filmmaker Cyril Aris utilizes the three distinct yet related...

2026 Oxbelly Screenwriters Fellows: Mounia Akl, Diego Céspedes & Celine Devaux Sophomore Projects Selected

Costa Brava, Lebanon's Mounia Akl, Everybody Loves Jeanne's Celine Devaux and The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo's Diego Céspedes are among the baker's dozen...

Interview: Mounia Akl – Hold Me (If You Want) (Work in Progress)

Exploring the intimate intersections of family, memory, and social constraint, often focusing on characters caught between personal desire and inherited structures, we first met...

2025 Marrakech Film Festival: New Projects by Scandar Copti, Mounia Akl & Amjad Al Rasheed at the Atlas Workshops

Before the Marrakech Film Festival unveil their 2025 line-up, we have learned the films that are the make up of the Atlas Workshops (November...

2025 TorinoFilmLab ScriptLab: Anna Hints, Mounia Akl & Matthew Puccini Selected

Another vital writer's retreat on the film festival circuit unveiled their invites today - Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (TFL) selected a sweet sixteen film project for...

Interview: Mounia Akl – Costa Brava, Lebanon

Arriving at TIFF after having premiered at the Venice Film Festival, first-time Lebanese filmmaker Mounia Akl who actually penned the screenplay with Clara Roquet...

Kino Lorber Move to Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon

Mounia Akl's Venice/Toronto preemed Costa Brava, Lebanon has found a home with the Kino Lorber folks. THR reports that the distrib have already set...

TIFF 2021: Bouli Lanners, Ho Wi Ding, Nathalie Biancheri, Agustina San Martín & Stephen Karam to World Preem in Toronto

Cherry picking the better titles from Cannes (winning titles such as Murina, Unclenching The Fists) and Venice, today TIFF programmers beefed up their Special...

2021 Venice Film Festival: Blonde is MIA, Franco’s Sundown, Vasyanovych’s Reflection, Frammartino’s The Hole, Larrain’s Spencer in COMP

While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Claire Denis' Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of...

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