Birthday

Beirut, 7 May 2008. A regular after-school day for Razan, who turns fourteen tomorrow, is disrupted by gun battles that erupt throughout the city. Regardless, Razan’s teenage concerns remain unchanged as she tries to enjoy a normal birthday.

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Feature

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Fiction

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meet the director

Lebanese/Canadian filmmaker based between London, Beirut and Montreal. She graduated from the London Film School with the award winning “Three Centimetres”, which premiered at Berlinale 2018 and screened at over 100 festivals. Her second short “A Beautiful Form to See” will be released in 2021, and she is currently developing her first feature.

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French producer who worked in Sponsorship at the British Film Institute and co-founded Sevana Films in 2017. She attends film festivals as a consultant, through talent development programs, and to discover emerging filmmakers. Most recently, she was a Film Mentor at SXSW, a Zurich Film Festival Academy participant, and won the John Brabourne Award.

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