After walking into the blinding daylight after being dead focused on the beauty of ‘A Sad and Beautiful World’ for nearly two hours, I had to flush out both the words ‘sad’ and ‘beautiful’ from my vocabulary. While the words encapsulate the film on the surface, this piece is much more than these two words (with no hate to the title; there, they work just fine).
Set in the heart of Lebanon, Cyril Aris’ debut feature film, A Sad and Beautiful World, tells a story of love and friendship across three decades amid war and tragedy.
Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire will open the 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival kicking off today November 28th, and running through December 6th, 2025.
The Lebanese film A Sad and Beautiful World directed by Cyril Aris has won the Snow Leopard for Best Film, the top jury prize at the 11th annual Asian World Film Festival.
The 11th Asian World Film Festival will open with Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, and close with Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab.
Lebanon has picked A Sad and Beautiful World (Arabic: نجوم الأمل و الألم), written and directed by Cyril Aris, as its Oscars entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards.
Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch has won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. The anthology film starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, consists of three stories on relationships between adult children, their parents and each other.