LAU CA student takes home TWO awards at NDU International Film Festival
Communication Arts student Georges Barbari won two prizes in the NDU International Film Festival, which took place between November 15 and 22, for his fiction film A Time in A Life. Fourteen Lebanese universities participated in this competition and 80 short films from Lebanon and abroad were screened.
Barbari went on stage twice, representing LAU; once to take his award as The Best Director in the Festival and the second time to take a special award: The ministry of Tourism Award “Of Land, People and Culture”, which is a trip to Cannes to attend the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
Barbari developed and produced his 28 minutes film in the Narrative & Documentary Filmmaking course under the supervision of Mr. Tony Farjallah. The events of the film take place in a small town on the shores of North Lebanon, a young fisherman falls for a visitor and finds peace amid the surrounding chaos.