Programs

INT 5【ONLINE 6/4〜】International Program 5

Award Winner

Online

Warsha

Mohammad is a crane operator working in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon. Away from everyone’s eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.

Director: Dania Bdeir
Time: 0:15:42
Country: France, Lebanon
Genre: Drama
Year: 2021

Awards Nominations

1. Sundance Film Festival, United States (20 - 30 January, 2022)
Short Film Competition Won: Best International Short Film: Fiction
2. International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands (26 January - 6 February, 2022)
Short Film Section
3. Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France (28 January - 5 February, 2022)
National Competition
4. Tampere Film Festival, Finland (9 -13 March, 2022)
International Competition. Won: Best Fiction Award

Director

Dania Bdeir

Dania Bdeir is a Lebanese-Canadian award-winning writer & director. She’s a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and has an MFA in directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.