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 has recently completed the post-production of her third short, Closure. She is currently developing her fourth short film 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 Matty Brown's upcoming feature debut, The Sand Castle, and two recently filmed features: Nadim Tabet’s In This Darkness I See You and Cyril Aris’s It’s a Sad and Beautiful World (both 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 2024. She is also an alumna of Talents Beirut (Berlinale Talents), Beirut-Locarno Industry Academy International, and Impact Lab Lebanon/Syria. |