Mounia Akl

A beacon of Lebanese cinema, Mounia Akl was born in 1989 in Beirut, Lebanon. Active as a director since 2012, she has gained recognition for her work in drama and short films, with her most famous, "Submarine", earning accolades at the Cannes Film Festival and the Dubai International Film Festival. Akl's authorial style is characterized by her unique ability to weave personal and social narratives into evocative visual stories, drawing on the rich texture of her Lebanese background. Akl, in her passionate pursuit of storytelling, has become an influential figure in the world of cinema, using her lens to shed light on the often overlooked narratives of her homeland.