‘Home Sweet Home’ 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.

About the Movie
The director returns to her native Lebanon due to the financial difficulties of her father, the principal of a progressive school in South Beirut. The family home sees frequent, lively and often humorous discussions. From these debates emerge the recent history of the country and the ways in which political change has irreversibly transformed society.

About the Director
Born in 1974 in Lebanon of a Lebanese father and Palestinian mother, Nadine Naous studied cinema and literature and has worked as a journalist, translator, actress and coach. In 2006, she directed her first documentary, My Palestine, and later her first short fiction, Clichés, in 2009. Naous is also an artist and author of several installations that mix super 8 films, videos, photos and audio.