a sad and beautiful world (2025)
Feature Film (Lebanon / USA / Germany / Saudi Arabia / Qatar)
WORLD PREMIERE: VENICE DAYS COMPETITION AT THE 82ND VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
https://www.giornatedegliautori.com/en/program/a-sad-and-beautiful-world-eng/
LOGLINE
In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.
FESTIVALS:
82nd Venice Film Festival, Giornate Degli Autori competition - Italy, 2025 | WORLD PREMIERE
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)
Reynard Films (Germany)