Maï Masri

Maï Masri
© Courtesy of Films From the South (Film fra Sør) 2011, Oslo
Film director, Producer, Director of photography (d.o.p.)
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

Mai Masri is a Palestinian filmmaker born in 1959 in Amman. She spent her childhood between Jordan and Palestine. At the beginning of the eighties, she moved to Lebanon. She received a bachelor degree in film studies from San Francisco State University. She has directed and produced several award-winning films that were broadcasting on more than 100 television stations around the world and received over 60 international awards including the Trailblazer Award at Mipdoc Cannes in 2011. With Lebanese filmmaker Jean Chamoun, her husband, she formed Nour Productions in 1994.

Filmography includes: 33 DAYS, BEIRUT DIARIES, FRONTIERS OF DREAMS AND FEARS, CHILDREN OF SHATILA, WOMAN OF HER TIME, CHILDREN OF FIRE, SUSPENDED DREAMS, WAR GENRERATION- BEIRUT, WAR FLOWERS, UNDER THE RUBBLE, IN THE SHADOWS OF THE CITY, WOMEN BEYOND BORDERS, LANTERNS OF MEMORY


COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY
2007 - 33 Days
2006 - Beirut Diaries
2002 - Rêves d'exil
2001 - Frontiers of Dreams and Fears
1998 - Children of Shatila
1995 - Hanan Ashrawi, une femme de son temps
1992 - Suspended Dreams
1990 - Children of Fire
1988 - Beyrouth, génération de la guerre
1986 - Fleur d'ajonc
1986 - Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon
1983 - Sous les décombres

Organizations

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Events

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Articles

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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