Tripoli, North Lebanon. At 64, Maha has just taken her retirement from teaching. This new life puts her in the face of her loneliness as a divorced woman, whose children have left their home to live abroad for years now. The sole company of her faithful neighbors is no longer enough for Maha to fight the terrible feeling of emptiness and boredom in which she now finds herself. But had not she always dreamed of being an astronaut? And what if she lets herself drift to this promise of escape?

Selections

« Lublin Film Festival 2022 » / Lublin (Poland) / November 2022
« A Shaded View On Fashion Film 2022 » / Paris (France) / November 2022
« Waterford International Film Festival 2022 » / Waterford (Ireland) / November 2022
« FICBC - Balneário Camboriú International Film Festival 2022 » / Camboriú (Brazil) / November 2022
« Mizna’s 2022 Twin Cities Arab Film » / Minneapolis (USA) / October 2022
« Oakville Film Festival 2022 » / Oakville (Canada) / June 2022
« Cinemas 2022 - The Alternative Film Festival » / Abu Dahbi (UAE) / June 2022
« Ferrara Film Corto Festival - “Ambiente è Musica” 2022 » / Ferrara (Italy) / June 2022
« Brno Film Festival 2022 » / Brno (Czech Republic) / April 2022
« Red Sea Film Festival 2021 » / Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) / December 2021
« Arab Film Festival 2021 » / San Diego (USA) / November 2021
« Cinemed - Festival du cinéma méditerranéen de Montpellier 2021 » / Montpellier (France) / October 2021
« LA Shorts International Film Festival 2021 » / Los Angeles (USA) / July 2021

Awards

HADI MOUSSALLY

Hadi Moussally was born in Lebanon in 1987. By age 18, he decides to go study film direction in France where he acquires a first master’s degree in “Fiction Cinema” from Paris-Est Marne la Vallée University. Moussally then chooses to take on a complementary masters in “Documentary and Anthropological Cinema” from Paris X Nanterre University, in the course of Jean Rouch. In that respect, Hadi Moussally acquainted himself with reality-cinema. The anthropological and documentary approach accustoms him with the sense of keen observation of his subjects and alerts him to the importance of instantaneous shooting; whereas his fictional background gives him the urge of creating sensual, esthetically pleasing imagery universes. From 2012, Hadi Moussally shifts towards the world of fashion and directs several experimental films some of which received various distinctions in festivals. In 2014 he made his first documentary on the end of his grandmother's life, and in 2016 a docu-portrait on a senior model. In 2018 he completed an experimental project on albinism "Positive" whose photos have been exhibited at the UNESCO, the City Hall of Paris and Beirut Art Fair as well. In 2015 he founded the production unit H7O7 whose main objective is to enable the making and promotion of films and photos with "hybrid" vocation where is privileged the mixture of genres between experimental, documentary, fashion and fiction.