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- Nadine Asmar is a Lebanese director and screenwriter. She holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Western Brittany, a Master's degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and a Bachelor's degree in Cinema and TV (Audiovisual) from the Lebanese University - Fine Arts Institute II.
She wrote and directed two award-winning short films, The Blind of the Cathedral (2015) and Perhaps Today (2017), and is in the post-production phase of her third short, The Experiment (2026). She is developing her fourth short film and her feature debut.
She gained experience by working in short and feature films including the two Academy Award® nominated Lebanese films, The Insult (2017) and Capernaum (2018), as well as The Sand Castle (2024), In This Darkness I See You, A Sad and Beautiful World (2025), and Only Rebels Win (2026) (in post-production).
Nadine is a co-founder of MovieTailor Pictures, a film production and distribution company based in Lebanon. As a producer, she has developed several projects, including the Pakistani short documentary, In Zainab's Heaven (2023), winner of 6 awards including the Special Jury Mention at Fribourg International Film Festival and Film SouthAsia 2024. She is also an alumna of Talents Beirut (Berlinale Talents), Beirut-Locarno Industry Academy International, and Impact Lab Lebanon/Syria.
- IMDb mini biography by: Source Itself
- Her university cinematography exercise Dans mon cocon (2014) short film, co-directed with a colleague, was featured in We Are Temporary - Mark Roberts' music video of You Can Now Let Go single released in December 2015. The musician watched the 2014 short film on Vimeo and found the content suitable for his new song. He worked on re-editing the footage and adding some visual effects to it, then uploaded the music video on Youtube.
- The dream is important, the actual achievement as well. I hope I can carry out these projects and always have new ideas, because as long as we have dreams, we are alive and we are able to progress, to mature, to grow and change the world, modestly through cinema and art.
- Don't wait your whole life to do what you wanna do. Just go ahead & create your own adventure!
- I believe you can be creative without losing your cinematic identity.
- I would like to make films that reflect the Lebanese society, to testify, to speak out and to also have good relations with the audience, whatever it is, Lebanese or not. To always go back to the local and the universal. But I want my origin, the origin of the filmmaker, to be seen.
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