Space Woman landed its world premiere at the Oscar-qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival a few months ago.
Written and directed by Hadi Moussally, the film stars Maha Abas, Sana Bakri, and May Moussally and is distributed across the Arab world by MAD Solutions.
Tripoli, North Lebanon. At 64, Maha has just retired from teaching.
This new life puts her in the face of her loneliness as a divorced woman and leads her to wonder: had she not always dreamed of being an astronaut? and what if she allows herself to drift into this promise, as a form of escape?
The Red Sea International Film Festival is a film event that is held in celebration of modern and classic cinema to learn from the masters and get inspired by the best.
The festival highlights the blockbusters of the future before they hit the big screen, re-discovers old favorites in retrospect with lovingly curated retrospectives and explore immersive audio-visual worlds with experimental and short film strands.
Hadi Moussally is a Lebanese film director who received his master’s degree from Paris-Est Marne la Vallée University.
He decided to shift towards the world of fashion and directed several experimental films, some of which received various distinctions in international festivals.
In 2014, he made his first documentary inspired by the life of his grandmother. In 2018, Moussally completed an experimental project on Albinism "Positive" and the film’s photos have been exhibited at the UNESCO, the City Hall of Paris, and Beirut Art Fair as well.
Moussally founded the production unit h7o7 with the aim to enable the making and promotion of films and photos where he privileged the mixture of genres between experimental, documentary, fashion and fiction.
His films have been awarded worldwide and have received more than 25 awards and 200 selections in international festivals. In 2020, he founded the collective “Hybrid Wave” with around 30 hybrid artists from around the world.
