Former management consultant Cyril Aris broke into directing with the hit mini-series Beirut, I Love You which aired on the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation from 2011 to 2012.

A joint collaboration with then architect student Mounia Akl , the series – in which they both co-starred – followed the lives of twentysomethings living in Beirut as they navigated work, love and life.

Akl would go on to write and direct the 2021 feature Costa Brava, Lebanon , while Aris shot the making-of documentary Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano , capturing the crew’s determination to shoot the film in the aftermath of the devastating August 2020 Beirut blast.

Some 15 years after their first collaboration, Aris has reunited with Akl for his debut feature A Sad and Beautiful World , which premi

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