Warsha
OPENING NIGHT PROGRAM—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4—7:00 PM
*** 2022 WINNER—GRAND JURY PRIZE ***
***2022 WINNER—BEST DIRECTOR (DANIA BDEIR) ***
Director: Dania Bdeir
Producers: Coralie Dias, Carine Ruszniewski, Pierre Sarraf
Lebanon
Narrative, 2022, 15 min.
A Syrian migrant is working as a crane operator 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.
WARSHA was the winner of the Short Film Grand Jury Award for International Fiction at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Grand Jury Award at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival.
Dana Bdeir is a Canadian-Lebanese writer and director. She’s a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and has an MFA in directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2019 she was selected as a Berlinale Talent and participated in its Short Film Station with WARSHA. She is currently based in Dubai and is developing her first feature film.
