Synopsis

Beirut Diaries plunges us into the heart of the massive youth uprising following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in February 2005, through the eyes of Nadine, a young student from Beirut.

Director Biography

Mai Masri is a Palestinian filmmaker who studied film at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University (USA). She directed and produced several films that were screened worldwide and won over 60 international awards. She founded Nour Productions in 1995 with her husband, filmmaker Jean Chamoun.  Her first feature film, 3000 Nights (2015) had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival and was screened in several international film festivals where it won over 23 awards and was selected to represent Jordan at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Palestine at the Golden Globes.