February 28, 2022 (DeeD) – Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, has unveiled the complete lineup for the 2022 festival.
The Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, has announced the complete list of the movies in competition for the 2022 edition of the festival, according to the official announcement on the festival’s website. The BWFF, Beirut Women Film Festival, takes place from March 6-11, 2022 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, was founded in 2017, in Lebanon. The BWFF Festival takes place as an annual event in March. The main theme of the Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, is ‘Women for Leadership.’ The Beirut Women Festival aims to highlight the role of women as leaders in their societies.
The Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, is organized by the Beirut Film Society. The Beirut Film Society is a Non-for Profit Lebanese organization situated in Beirut, working since 2007 on promoting for ‘responsible filmmaking.’
The mission of the Beirut Film Society is improving the filmmaking industry, empowering and supporting talents and creativity, reinforcing the concept of ‘responsible filmmaking,’ and above all, staying committed to its social responsibility in Lebanon and the Arab world, and far beyond.
‘At the Beirut International Women Film Festival, it is our responsibility to fortify women’s voices that will undoubtedly echo the sound of future, evolution, progress, future and development for our country and for our Arab region,’ Sam Lahoud, the founder of Beirut Film Society, has said in a comment.
The motto of the Beirut Women Film Festival (BWFF) is: ‘Let us all work towards Women for Change. Let us all work towards Women For leadership.’
The Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, has taken ‘Tanith’—the Great Phoenician Goddess of Carthage—as the symbol of the festival, and the ‘Tanith of Beirut’ is the main award presented at the BWFF Festival.
The Beirut Women Film Festival has received more than 1,200 submissions from more than 100 countries to take part in different competition sections of the 2022 festival, according to BWFF.
13 feature fiction films, 7 feature documentary films, 27 fiction short films, 10 short documentary films, 7 short animation films, 10 dance films have been selected to go on screen in different competition sections of the festival.
The 2022 Beirut Women Film Festival has announced the official lineup in six main competitions:
Feature Fiction Films competition,
Feature Documentary Films competition,
Short Fiction Films competition,
Short Documentary Films competition,
Short Animation Films competition,
Dance Films competition.
The lineup in the Feature Fiction Films competition of the 2022 Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, is:
‘Bandar Band’ by Manijeh Hekmat;
‘Becoming’ by Sara Mesfer, Noor Alameer, Fatima Albanawi, Jowaher Alamri, Hend Alfahhad;
‘Body of Water’ by Lucy Brydon;
‘Daughters of Abdulrahman’ by Zaid Abu Hamdan;
‘Farah’ by Hassiba Freiha, Kenton Oxley;
‘Hard Shell, Soft Shell’ by Emma Benestan;
‘Huda’s Salon’ by Hany Abu-Assad;
‘I’ll go to Hell’ by Ismahane Lahmar;
‘Soula’ by Salah Issaad;
‘Sweet Disaster’ by Laura Lehmus;
‘The Anger’ by Maria Ivanova Surae;
‘The Girl has Flown’ by Wilma Labate;
‘You Resemble Me’ by Dina Amer.
The lineup in the Feature Documentary Films competition of the 2022 Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, is:
‘As I Want’ by Samaher Alqadi;
‘Breathe’ by Susanna Barranco;
‘Im Not Lakit’ by Maria Ivanova Surae;
‘Notes from Brussels’ by Nadine Van Loon;
‘Radiograph of a Family’ by Firouzeh Khosrovani;
‘The Blue Inmates’ by Zeina Daccache;
‘The Voice of Thaïs’ by David Casals Roma.
The lineup in the Short Fiction Films competition of the 2022 Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, is:
‘Barter’ by Ziba Karamali, Emad Arad;
‘Bint Werdan’ by Maysaa Almumin;
‘Bird’ by Kalina Lukanova;
‘Come Here’ by Marieke Elzerman;
‘Deroute’ by Nadia Claudi;
‘Girls Shouldn’t Walk Alone at Night’ by Katerine Martineau;
‘Hors Champ’ by Rita Rizk;
‘In the Inner Circle’ by Julia Reiter;
‘Inheritance’ by Matthieu Haag;
‘It Must’ by Jumana Isaa, Flavio Luca Marano;
‘Like the Ones I Used to Know’ by Annie St-Pierre;
‘Nour Shams’ by Faiza Ambah;
‘Plastic Dream’ by Merve Bozcu;
‘She’s the Protagonist’ by Sarah Carlot Jaber;
‘Tender Threads’ by Ouijdane Khallid;
‘The Infants’ by Andrea Herrera Català;
‘The Little Things’ by Sabine El Khoury;
‘The Loneliest Whale in the World’ by Yi Zhang;
‘The Ordinary Eli’ by Lavinija Sofronievska;
‘The Perfect Balance’ by Andrew Dawaf;
‘To the Soul’ by Leila Moussa Sweidan;
‘Tuktuk’ by Mohamed Kheidr;
‘Umbilical’ by Elpida Stathatou;
‘Apnea’ by Romy Bou Nasr.
The lineup in the Short Documentary Films competition of the 2022 Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, is:
‘Cosmic Liz and Ivy Rose’ by Maria Lena Koen;
‘Don’t Get Too Comfortable’ by Shaima Al Tamimi;
‘I don’t Feel at Home Anywhere Anymore’ by Viv Li;
‘If Everyone Knew’ by Imogen Harrison;
‘Kickqueen-The Body ‘ by Ghinwa Yassine;
‘Love in Galilee’ by Layla Menhem, Nader Chalhoub;
‘Reverberations’ by Yara El Murr;
‘Un Pour Huit’ by Lynn Tawile;
‘We Are Proud’ by Mélanie Pitteloud;
‘What Nobody Talks About’ by Hansine Killingmoe Såstad.
The lineup in the Short Animation Films competition of the 2022 Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, is:
‘Caged Bird’ by Dana Dajani, Rami Kanso;
‘Cosmic Cooking’;
‘How My Grandmother Became a Chair’ by Nicolas Fattouh;
‘Post #MeToo’ by Phoebe Chingying Man;
‘Roberto’ by Carmen Córdoba González;
‘The Unattainable Object of Desire’ by Athar Hakim;
‘Up to the Sea, She Weaves a Dream’ by Maryam Khalilzadeh.
The lineup in the Dance Films competition of the 2022 Beirut Women Film Festival, or BWFF, is:
‘She Moved the Prairie’ by Bret Jones, Cheyla Clawson;
‘Ta Mara’ by Iwona Pasińska;
‘Once There Was III’ by Nina McNeely;
‘A Dream of Touch When Touch is Gone’ by Carl Flink;
‘Fairies Baseball’ by Ruth Fowler;
”Viva A Temp’ by Beatrice Surano;
‘What Really Matters’ by Audrey Biche, Julie Magneville;
‘Visible’ by Carolina Kzan;
‘Downriver’ by Andrea Boll;
‘Circe’ by Anna Zurkirchen, Celine Werkhoven.