Sea Salt
On this hot summer day, 17-year-old Nayla is faced with the same dilemma every Lebanese youngster is faced with today – to leave or to stay. Two men in her life have set ideas about it, but both might wake up to a surprise.
- Czech Republic, Lebanon, Qatar
- 2023, 19 min
- Director: Leila Basma
- Director of photography: Zaher Jureidini
- Editor: Leila Basma
- Screenplay: Leila Basma
- Music: Aid Kid
- Sound: Dominyka Adomaityte
- Cast: Nathalie Issa, Farid Shawki, Georges Matar, Hiba Chihane, Rabih Abdo
- Art Director: Assad Khouery
- Coproduction: FAMU, Road2Films, Stairway Films
- Producer: Natália Pavlove
- Production: other stories
Leila Basma
Leila Basma is a Lebanese filmmaker and photographer currently based between Beirut and Prague while finishing her MFA in film directing at FAMU. Her second-year short documentary, The Adam Basma Project (2020), was short-listed for the 48th annual Student Academy Awards (the Student Oscars) after touring various international documentary film festivals.