Mounia Akl

Mounia Akl is an award-winning Lebanese filmmaker. Her short film “Submarine” (2016) was in the Official Selection of the 69th Cannes Film Festival (Cinéfondation), SXSW, TIFF, and Dubai Film Festival where it won the Muhr Jury Prize. In 2017 Mounia took part in the Lebanon Factory and co-directed a short film “El Gran Libano” which opened Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and screened at BFI London, among others. “Costa Brava, Lebanon” was developed during the Cannes’ Cinéfondation Residency. The project was also selected for the Torino Film Lab Feature Lab and the Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Director’s Lab. Mounia holds a BA in architecture from ALBA and an MFA in directing from the Columbia University. She has taught film directing at the NHSI Film Summer Institute at the Northwestern University, Chicago. Mounia is currently developing new projects for television and film, one of which will be her second feature film.