a sad and beautiful world (2025)

Feature Film (Lebanon / USA / Germany / Saudi Arabia / Qatar)


WORLD PREMIERE: VENICE FILM FESTIVAL | GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI COMPETITION

https://www.giornatedegliautori.com/en/program/a-sad-and-beautiful-world-eng/


LEBANON’S OFFICIAL ENTRY FOR THE 98TH OSCARS® FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM


LOGLINE

Across three decades of passion, loss, and hope, Nino and Yasmina are bound by a magnetic relationship. Torn between love and survival, they must decide whether to build a family and seek happiness in Lebanon, or leave their home, amid the country’s unfolding tragedies. 

FESTIVALS:

  • 82nd Venice Film Festival, Giornate Degli Autori competition - Italy, 2025 | WORLD PREMIERE

  • 69th BFI London Film Festival - UK, 2025 | UK PREMIERE

  • 70th Valladolid International Film Festival (SEMINCI) - Spain, 2025 | SPANISH PREMIERE

  • 49th Mostra de São Paulo - Brazil, 2025 | SOUTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

  • 62nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival - Turkey, 2025

  • 47th Festival Cinéma Meditteranéen de Montpellier (CINÉMED) - France, 2025

  • 33rd Filmfest Hamburg - Germany, 2025 | GERMAN PREMIERE

  • 56th Goa International Film Festival - India, 2025 | ASIAN PREMIERE

  • 5th Red Sea Film Festival - Saudi Arabia, 2025 | MENA PREMIERE

  • 22nd Marrakesh International Film Festival - Morocco, 2025

  • 11th Asian World Film Festival - Los Angeles, 2025 | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

  • 30th International Film Festival of Kerala - India, 2025

  • 31st MedFilm Festival in Rome - Italy, 2025

  • 14th Festival International du Film Indépendant Bordeaux - France, 2025 | FRENCH PREMIERE

  • 38th Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes - France, 2025

  • 43rd Arte Mare Festival - Corsica, France 2025

  • 26th Arras Film Festival - France, 2025

  • 25th Cinemamed Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival - Brussels, Belgium 2025

  • 36th Ljubljana International Film Festival - Slovenia, 2025

  • 16th Middle East Now Florence - Italy, 2025

  • 34th Sarlat Film Festival - France, 2025

  • 5th Festival dul Film Libanais de France - France, 2025


AWARDS:

  • 82nd Venice Film Festival, Giornate Degli Autori - Audience Award - Italy, 2025

  • 70th Valladolid International Film Festival (SEMINCI) - Audience Award - Spain, 2025

  • 11th Asian World Film Festival - Snow Leopard for Best Film - USA, 2025

  • 5th Red Sea Film Festival - Best Screenplay - Saudi Arabia, 2025

  • 33rd Filmfest Hamburg - Best Co-Producers’ Award - Germany, 2025

  • 47th Festival Cinéma Meditteranéen de Montpellier (CINÉMED) - Best Music - France, 2025

  • 47th Festival Cinéma Meditteranéen de Montpellier (CINÉMED) - Youth Jury Award for Best Film - France, 2025

  • 38th Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes - Grand Prize - France, 2025

  • 31st MedFilm Festival in Rome - Jury Special Prize - Italy, 2025

  • 31st MedFilm Festival in Rome - University Jury Prize - Italy, 2025

  • 36th Ljubljana International Film Festival - Audience Award - Slovenia, 2025

  • 36th Ljubljana International Film Festival - Special Mention - Slovenia, 2025

  • 16th Middle East Now Florence - Audience Award - Italy, 2025

  • 43rd Arte Mare Festiva - Grand Prize - France, 2025

GRANTS & SUPPORT:


• Recipient of a post-production award from the Ateliers de l’Atlas, Marrakesh International Film Festival, Morocco 2024

• Recipient of a post-production grant from the Doha Film Institute, Qatar 2025

• Recipient of a post-production grant from the Visions du Sud Est, Switzerland 2024

• Recipient of a production grant from the Red Sea Film Fund, Saudi Arabia 2023

• Recipient of a production grant from the OIF, France 2022

• Recipient of a development grant from the Cinémed festival in Montpellier, France 2021

• Recipient of a production grant from the Lebanese Film Fund, Lebanon 2023

• Recipient of a production grant from the MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Germany 2023

• Recipient of a production grant from the HF&M, Germany 2023

• Recipient of a production grant from the SLM, Germany 2024

• Selected at the Toronto TIFF Filmmaker Lab, Canada 2019

• Selected at Nantucket Screenwriter Colony, USA 2019

• Selected at the MIA Co-production Market in Rome, Italy 2020

• Selected for the CineGouna Platform at the El-Gouna Film Festival in Egypt, 2019

• Invited for a residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris, France 2019

• Selected for the Red Sea Lodge, Saudi Arabia 2021

• Winner of the ART award at the 4th Beirut Cinema Platform, Lebanon 2019

• Official Selection at the 3rd edition Cinephilia Bound Cannes at the Cannes Film Festival, France 2019

• Selected for the Fondation Liban Cinema’s Re-Writing Workshop, Lebanon 2019

Produced by

Abbout Productions (Lebanon)

Diversity Hire (USA)

Renard Films (Germany)