High Heel Hakawati

After years of losing at the Beirut Storytelling Fest, the drag-queen Sasha Warma tries to win over a highbrow jury with a love story. “All is well for golden-boy Christian Sfeir: taking the reins of his father’s company, living with his girlfriend Tamara… until he falls for a new flatmate: David.”

LENGTH

Feature

GENRE

Fiction

PRODUCED IN

France/Lebanon

STATUS

In Development

WITH THE HELP OF

connection

meet the director

Christophe Nassif is an award-winning French-Lebanese filmmaker with a MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. A fellow at the Rawi Screenwriters Lab 2017, he won in 2018 the BCP Prize (Fondation Liban Cinéma Re-writing Lab), and the Best Screenplay Award (Cinephilia Screenwriting Lab for Shorts.)

meet the producer

Huda Al Kadhimi founded Ishtar Iraq Film Production Company to support local talent and stories of the Arab world. Credits include ‘Mosul 980’ (Ali Mohammed Saeed, Generation Competition Berlinale, 2019), ‘Qadr’ (LA Shorts Competition, 2021), & ‘Hanging Gardens’.

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