38th edition
17-25 january 2026

La Lettre de Nabil

Sheila Barakat

Image La Lettre de Nabil
France
1995 Fiction 21 min
Even in times of war, a young girl is a young girl. She is in love and waits for lover's letters her boyfriend has sent her. She is free and wants to get out of her suffocating apartment. She is attentive and listens to the old man talk.
Screenplay : S. Barakat, N. Stragier, A. Birot
Image : Sara Cornu
Editing : Marie da Costa
Sheila Barakat was born in 1968. She studied at the Libanon Fine-Arts Academy, where she made "Miro". In 1994, she went straight into the third year at the FEMIS.