Under the imminent threat of Lebanon’s 2015 garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
Mounia Akl is a director and writer from Lebanon based in New York with an MFA in Directing from Columbia. Apart from directing and screenwriting, Mounia is a directing faculty at the NHSI film summer institute at Northwestern University in Chicago, and was a preceptor in Screenwriting at Columbia University. She is currently writing her feature film "The Most Beautiful Place in the World" with Spanish co-writer Clara Roquet. Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival.
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