18th Annual Pavel Koutecký Award and 7th ELBE DOCK IFF | September 4–8, 2024

Sea Salt

4. 9. 2024
13:00
Ještěrka
Additional programme
original title
Sea Salt
directed by
Leila Basma
produced by
Natalia Pavlove (Other Stories); FAMU
year
2023
duration
19 minutes
country
Czechia, Lebanon
language
Arabic with English and Czech subtitles

Synopsis

The summer is coming to an end soon, and Nayla, a Lebanese teenager getting her first taste of independence, has life-changing decisions to make.

The film premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in the Orizzonti short film section.

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Leila Basma is a Lebanese, Prague-based, filmmaker and photographer with an MFA in Film Directing from FAMU. Her second-year short documentary The Adam Basma Project was short-listed for the Student Academy Award after touring various international documentary film festivals.