Category: Directors-2017

Masri was born in Amman, Jordan on April 2, 1959. Masri was raised in Beirut, where she has lived most of her life. She is a Palestinian filmmaker who studied film at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University (USA) where she graduated 1981 with a BA degree. Soon after that she returned to Beirut and began making films.

She founded Nour Productions in 1995 with her husband, filmmaker Jean Chamoun and directed several documentaries that received over 60 international awards including the Trailblazer Award at Mipdoc Cannes (2011) and the Luchino Visconti Award in Italy (2004).

Her films were screened on more than 100 television stations worldwide including PBS, BBC, Channel 4, France 2, France 3, SBS, RTBF, YLE, RTP, ZDF, NHK, GLOBO, RAI TV, and Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel,.

 

 

• under the Rubble(1983)
• Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon(1986)
• War Generation(1989)
• Children of Fire(1990)
• Suspended Dreams(1992)
• Hanan Ashrawi: A Woman of Her Time(1995)
• Children of Shatila(1998)
• Frontiers of Dreams and Fears(2001)
• Beirut Diaries(2006)
• 33 Days(2007)
• 3000 Nights(2015)

The son of Hibat Tabib, an Iranian jurist, author of sociology books and European expert on issues of violence and mediation, Kheiron and his family fled the country in January 19842.

Kheiron worked for four years as an educator on a project on Dropouts, to help young people reconnect with school, while aiming for an artistic life3,4,5.

In 2006, he joined the Jamel Comedy Club and wrote chronicles for the show T’hibêches everyone to sleep in 2007. The following year, Kheiron plays his first show entitled Kheiron goes from Du Coq to Light where he combines different talents Scenic: stand-up, slam and rap6. He is said to be inspired by comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chapel, Eddie Izzard and Chris Rock3.

In 2011, he creates with humorist friends (including Kyan Khojandi and Navo) the Bordel Club, a joke laboratory.

The Bordel Club will be only the first comedy set created and presented by Kheiron. The Punchlive at Tabu, the Comedy Strip at the Théâtre de Dix and, since October 2014, the Klub at Sentier des Halles will follow.

Kheiron also interprets a secondary character named Kheiron in the short series Bref, aired in the show Le Grand Journal Canal + between August 2011 and July 2012 3.5.4.

In 2012, he performed on stage in Libre Education, his improvisation stand-up, first at the Théâtre de Dix heures, then at L’Européen3,4,7,8 and finally at the Alhambra from January to May 20141.

Kheiron holds the record for longevity and affluence at the Théâtre de l’Européen in Paris (18 months).

On March 27, 2013, Kheiron launches his first rap EP on the My Major Company website. This 8 tracks is released on April 20, 2015 [réf. necessary].

On November 4, 2015, she released her first feature film as director, screenwriter and lead actor (lead role with Leïla Bekhti), Nous trois ou rien, which tells the story of her parents since their youth in Iran, their resistance to the regime. from the shah to that of Ayatollah Khomeini, until their arrival in France, land of welcome and freedom, and their grip on social problems in the Paris region. The film makes more than 600,000 entries9.

On June 30, 2017 he married his partner Leila Boumedjane.

Since 1995 Marco Speroni has been working as a producer, writer and director for shorts and feature films. In 1996 he got the Premio Solinas award for Best screenplay for “What’s love got to do with it” based on which he made the movie selected for international festivals, such as Locarno Film Festival (1997). Since 1998 he has collaborated with important Italian TV networks such as Rai and Sky. In 2011 he was the producer and director of “Hells Heart”, a docu-fiction shot in a war zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2013 he directed a TV program for the US network PBS. In 2014 he directed the documentary “Time to look at girls” for Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). “2 Girls” (2016) is his most recent documentary.