Leila and the Cigarette
2023 | 15mins | Canada, Lebanon | Arabic
DIRECTOR: Leah Manasseh
In 2011, Leah decided to go to Lebanon to film with her grandmother. Two weeks after the shoot, her grandmother died of metastatic lung cancer. It took her 12 years to get the courage to revisit their last conversations.
YAMAMA AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM: 2023 FESTIVAL
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