07/06/2026
| Halaqat - Lebanon |
✨Introducing the selected projects in Lebanon, that that engage with care through film, storytelling, feminist practice, heritage preservation, and socially engaged performance.
🔸In A Letter to Myself, filmmaker Omar Gabriel explores the lives of individuals living at the margins of Lebanese society, creating space for reflection on identity, vulnerability, social mobility, and the structural realities that shape people’s lives.
🔸Through The Silk Keepers, Mona Ayoub revives oral storytelling traditions and endangered craft knowledge, following the last family of silkworm breeders and silk makers through a richly illustrated children’s story.
🔸Take a Breath, developed by Studio Nasawe, supports women working in care and educational roles in Baalbek-Hermel through feminist workshops, creative expression, and collective approaches to well-being.
🔸Meanwhile, Khadimatan by Lama Amine reimagines Jean Genet’s The Maids through a Lebanese lens, exploring experiences of labour, care, race, and identity through theatre while creating space for dialogue and underrepresented perspectives.
Together, these projects examine care as a practice of resistance, remembrance, solidarity, and social transformation, opening space for critical conversations and new forms of collective support.