Nadine Asmar

Biography

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 is currently in post-production of her third short, Rouge in Black & White. 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 The Sand Castle (Netflix, 2024), and three upcoming features: Nadim Tabet’s In This Darkness I See You, Cyril Aris' It’s a Sad and Beautiful World, and Danielle Arbid's Love Conquers All (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 and Film SouthAsia 2024. She is also an alumna of Talents Beirut (Berlinale Talents), Beirut-Locarno Industry Academy International, and Impact Lab Lebanon/Syria.