ABOUT
Nadine is a Lebanese filmmaker. She holds a BA in Cinema and TV from the Lebanese University - Fine Arts Institute II and an MA in Cinema and Audiovisual from Paris 1 University Panthéon-Sorbonne. She’s currently completing her PhD thesis in Film Studies at the University of Western Brittany in France.
She wrote and directed two award-winning short films, The Blind of the Cathedral (2015) and Perhaps Today... (2017), and is currently in post-production of her third short, The Experiment. She is developing her fourth short film, The Disgrace, a co-production with France pitched at the 2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival's Talents Connexion, as well as her feature debut.
She gained experience by working in several short and feature films including the two Academy Award® nominated Lebanese films, Ziad Doueiri’s The Insult (2017) and Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum (2018), as well as Cyril Aris' A Sad and Beautiful World (Venice, 2025), Danielle Arbid's Only Rebels Win (Berlinale, 2026), Matty Brown's The Sand Castle (Netflix, 2024), and Nadim Tabet’s In This Darkness I See You (in post-production).
Nadine is a co-founder of MovieTailor Pictures, a film production and distribution company based in Lebanon. As a producer, she has developed several projects, including the Pakistani short documentary, In Zainab’s Heaven (2023), winner of 6 awards including the Special Jury Mention at Fribourg International Film Festival 2024. She is also an alumna of several industry programs, including Talents Beirut (Berlinale Talents), Beirut-Locarno Industry Academy International, and Impact Lab Lebanon/Syria.
FILMOGRAPHY by role
DIRECTOR/WRITER/EDITOR
- The Disgrace (Drama/Thriller, 15 min, LB/FR, Funding Stage) Pitched at the 2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival’s Talents Connexion
- Impure (Drama, 15 min, Late Development Stage) Selected for the Short Tweaks Residency 2024
- The Experiment (Experimental/Fantasy/Thriller, 8 min, Post-Production)
- Perhaps Today… (Drama, 9 min, 2017) Winner of 7 international awards including Best Short Film & Best Director
- The Blind of the Cathedral (Drama, 18 min, 2015) Winner of 11 international awards including Best Short Film, Director, Actor and Actress
- Dans mon cocon (Psychological Thriller, 10 min, 2014) Screened as a special mention at La Journée cinématographique des étudiants de l’INBA2
- Yingtai (Drama, 8 min, 2014) Academic short film
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR
- In This Darkness I See You (Feature Fiction, Drama/Thriller, Post-Production)
- Only Rebels Win (Feature Fiction, Drama/Romance, 2026) Selected in the Panorama section of the 2026 Berlinale
- A Sad and Beautiful World (Feature Fiction, Drama/Romance, 2025) Selected in competition at the Giornate degli Autori of the 2025 La Biennale di Venezia
- The Sand Castle (Feature Fiction, Drama/Mystery/Thriller, 98 min, 2024) Netflix Original - Most Watched Arab-Speaking Film on Netflix in 2025
- Only Silence (Drama, 30 min, 2018) Co-produced with France 3
- The Insult (Feature Fiction, Drama, 113 min, 2017) Script Continuity | Academy Award® Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film & Winner of La Biennale’s Best Actor
PRODUCER/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
- In Zainab’s Heaven (Documentary, 26 min, PK/LB/UAE, 2023) Producer | Winner of 6 international awards including the Special Jury Mention at Fribourg IFF 2024
- Lost Out There (Drama, 15 min, 2017) Production Coordinator | Senior short film
- Last Vision (Drama, 15 min, 2016) Producer | Senior short film
- Salwa (Drama, 17 min, 2014) Executive Producer | Senior short film
OTHER ROLES
- Capernaum (Feature Fiction, Drama, 126 min, 2018) Casting Intern | Academy Award® Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and Winner of Cannes IFF’ Jury Prize
AWARDS by film/project
PERHAPS TODAY... (SHORT, 2017)
- Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the 16th Festival du Film Court 2018 (France)
- Jury Prize for Best Short Film at Festival Cin'et Campus 2018 (France)
- 3rd Prize for Best Student Film at the 4th Women Over 50 Film Festival 2018 (UK)
- Unheard Voices Award at the IE Student Film Festival 2019 (Spain)
- Best Valuation of a People’s Culture Award at the 16th Festival Cinéma des Peuples 2019 (Morocco)
- Best Picture at the Locked-In Film Festival 2020 by Copenhagen Underground (Denmark)
- Best Asian Director at the November 2020 Asian Cinematography Awards (ACA - Philippines) by Cinematography Awards Foundation (CA)
Selected in over 60 international film festivals
THE BLIND OF THE CATHEDRAL (SHORT, 2015)
- Best Short Narrative Film Award in the Short Film Competition of Mediterranean Countries at the 32nd Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival 2016 (Egypt)
- Best Directing Award at the 15th Uhvati Film Festival - Seize the Film 2017 (Serbia)
- Jury Prize in the Arab Women Filmmakers Competition at the 8th Baghdad International Film Festival 2016 (Iraq)
- Best Leading Actor Award for Sam Khoury at the 4th Herat International Women's Film Festival 2016 (Afghanistan)
- Best Actress Award for Aya Tiba at the Festival Universitaire International Ciné-Lettres d'Agadir 2017 (Morocco)
- Excellent Long Short Award (2nd prize) at The New Classic Cinema Film Festival 2016 (USA)
- Jury Mention Award (Up To 30 Minute category) at the 13th We Care Film Festival 2016 (India)
- Special Jury Prize at the 2nd Oraunion Film Festival 2018 in Lebanon- Best International Short Film Award at the Chitrapushp International Short Film Festival 2018 (India)
- Best Foreign Actress Award at the 3rd In-Short Film Festival 2018 (Nigeria)
- Special Mention at Festival Les Couleurs du Court-Métrage 2019 (France)
Selected in over 70 international film festivals