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 pursuing 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 currently developing her fourth short film, The Disgrace which was pitched at the 2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival's Talents Connexion, and her feature debut.
She gained experience by working in 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 (2025), Matty Brown's The Sand Castle (Netflix, 2024), and two upcoming features: Nadim Tabet’s In This Darkness I See You, and Danielle Arbid's Who Wants The Rain Must Accept The Mud (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 the Special Jury Mention at Fribourg International Film Festival and Film SouthAsia 2024. She is also an alumna of Talents Beirut (Berlinale Talents), Beirut-Locarno Industry Academy International, and Impact Lab Lebanon/Syria.
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
- Who Wants The Rain Must Accept The Mud (Feature Fiction, Drama/Romance, Post-Production)
- In This Darkness I See You (Feature Fiction, Drama/Thriller, Post-Production)
- 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 3 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