‘Master Class with Hicham Lasri’ at Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015

Since 2001, Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya has promoted Independent Lebanese and Arab films, and encouraged young talents to lend their imagination to the big screen.

This unique Arab film festival brings together over 200 professionals and students from Lebanon and the region, in addition to international professionals and stars. In additions to films, the festival hosts many workshops, roundtables and networking sessions.

Filmmaker and screenwriter Hicham Lasri will give a Master Class in which he will discuss his distinct style of filmmaking. Troubadours, insurgents, women in chains. Since directing his first short films, namely Android in 2011, filmmaker and screenwriter Hicham Lasri has not stopped delving into Moroccan society, shedding light on its outcasts and giving them a voice.

Born in Casablanca, Lasri has worked extensively in theater, cinema and television, writing diverse scripts and plays. He has collaborated with acclaimed Moroccan filmmakers, including Nabil Ayouch and Lahcen Zinoun, and developed a distinctive style in his first short films before unveiling his feature debut, The End. Presented as part of the ACID Selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, the film won over critics with its intelligent camerawork, stylish black-and-white visuals and audacious tone, critical of the monarchy. In They Are the Dogs, his acclaimed follow-up produced by Nabil Ayouch, Lasri blended fiction and documentary to examine present-day Morocco.