Lebanese filmmaker.

Mounia AKL (مونيا عقل) is a director and screenwriter.

She is known for "Costa Brava, Lebanon" (2021), "Submarine" (2016), "Anoesis" (2011).

Mounia Akl is a Lebanese director and screenwriter based between London and New York. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®.

Her debut feature, "Costa Brava, Lebanon", inspired by her short "Submarine" (Cannes 2016), premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, TIFF, and BFI London, winning the Audience Award. It was released in the US by Kino Lorber and later on Netflix. She developed the script through the Sundance Labs, Cannes Cinéfondation Residency, and Torino Film Lab. Her second feature film is currently in development and set to shoot in the next two years.

In TV, she has directed episodes of BBC's "The Responder" (Martin Freeman), "Boiling Point" (Stephen Graham), and Netflix's "House of Guinness" (created by Stephen Knight). She is also developing her own TV series with three colleagues set in Spain and New York.


Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
► Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
► www.mouniaakl.com/about
► www.instagram.com/mounia.akl/
► www.imdb.com/fr/name/nm3701357/
► https://trigon-film.org/fr/cineastes/mounia-akl/
► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounia_Akl
Updated by Thierno DIA, 30 June 2025