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Q&A with Director Myriam El Hajj - DIARIES FROM LEBANON

Check out the Q&A session from the Montreal premiere of DIARIES FROM LEBANON, with Director Myriam El Hajj, held on October 28th, 2024. Myriam El Hajj is a Lebanese filmmaker whose first feature documentary A TIME TO REST premiered at Visions du Réel-Nyon in 2015 and screened at several international festivals, winning multiple awards. Her second feature documentary DIARIES FROM LEBANON world premiered at the Berlinale’s Panorama section. Additionally, Myriam teaches Cinema at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. She’s a member of several film commissions, including the CNC and she’s a founding member of Rawiyat-Sisters in Film — a collective of women filmmakers from the Arab world and the diaspora. DIARIES FROM LEBANON is a powerful film that sneaks up on you, combining personal reflection and experience with a wider critique of power and corruption in Lebanon that builds up to an intense reckoning. Video shot and edited by Cesar Velasco Gil.