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Beirut Women Film Festival Honors Actress Takla Chamoun In Its Fifth Edition
On Sunday, the fifth edition of the Beirut Women Film Festival organized by Beirut Film Society was launched with an opening ceremony that took place at Casino Du Liban hosted by presenter Nisrine Zawahra and featuring performances by singer Ingrid Naccour and piano composer Simon Tarabay.
Since 2017, BWFF has been a celebration of women’s success in the film industry, providing local and foreign female filmmakers with an opportunity to showcase their films of all categories, and 2022 is no exception!
A varied lineup of movies directed by female creators from Lebanon and other countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Austria, and Switzerland awaits you until March 11 at Grand Cinemas in ABC Dbayeh, and tickets are for free.
Gender-related panel discussions are also part of the event. You can check them out on the screening program.
Following the same format of previous editions, this year’s festival honors theater and TV actress Takla Chamoun, the accomplished former Lebanese University graduate who received a Best Actress award for her role in Chakib Khoury’s ”Ma Youchbeh Kissat Hob” at Festival International du Théatre de Casablanca, and whose charm on camera got her outstanding features in European and Lebanese films including ”Un Homme Perdu” in 2007, “Rsasa Taycheh” in 2010, and “Habbet Loulou” in 2013.
Chamoun also founded the Lebanese Film Academy – LFA in collaboration with her husband Tony Frjallah, and was the executive producer of the award winning film “Morine”.
The awarded actress will also be the president of the Festival’s all-female jury that is divided as follows:
– Feature fiction jury: Nada Doumani, Rose Marie Chahine, and Lara Saba.
– Feature documentary jury: Barween Habib, Nil Kural, and Colette Khalaf.
– Short fiction jury: Carmen Bsaibes, Layal M. Rajha, and Nahed Salah.
– Short documentary & animation jury: Farnoosh Samadi, Claudine Kamar, and Cynthia Sawma.
– Short dance films jury: Aline Lahoud, Remie Akl, and Isabelle Zighondi.
What better way to celebrate women’s day than to hear the stories they want to tell?
