Nadine Asmar (Directing)

Nadine Asmar is a Lebanese director and screenwriter. She got her Bachelor's degree in Cinema and TV (Audiovisual) from the Lebanese University - Fine Arts Institute II and her Master's degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from Pantheon-Sorbonne University - Paris 1. She is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of Western Brittany in France. L'aveugle de la Cathédrale / The Blind of the Cathedral (2015) is her graduation short film, a first-time adaptation of a novel by Farjallah Haik (the rights were obtained from Haïk's family). The film won 11 international awards including Best Short Fiction Film, Best Directing, Best Actor and Best Actress, and was nominated for over 40 awards and selected in over 50 international film festivals. She has been congratulated on several academic short films, including Dans mon cocon (2014) which was screened as a special jury mention during the Première Journée Cinématographique des étudiants de...Read More