Warsha
Mohammad is a crane operator working in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon. Away from everyone’s eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.
- France, Lebanon
- 2021, 16 min
- Director: Dania Bdeir
- Director of photography: Shadi Chaaban
- Editor: Ali J. Dalloul
- Screenplay: Dania Bdeir
- Music: Hello Psychaleppo
- Sound: Régis Diebold, Mathieu Z’Graggen
- Cast: Khansa
- Art Director: Perrine Villemur, Rita Chaghoury
- Coproduction: Né à Beyrouth Films
- Producer: Coralie Dias, Pierre Sarraf
- Production: Inter Spinas Films
Dania Bdeir
Dania Bdeir is an award-winning writer and director and a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective. She has a BA in graphic design and an MFA in directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2019, Dania was selected as a Berlinale Talent and participated in its Short Film Station with Warsha (2021). She is currently based in Dubai and is developing her first feature film, Pigeon Wars, which was selected for the 2018–2019 Torino Film Lab x DFI Hezaya Screenwriting Lab and other workshops.