Mounia Akl

DIRECTOR, WRITER, ACTRESS

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Mounia Akl is a director and writer born in Lebanon on June 29, 1989, and living between Beirut and New York. She holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from ALBA and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University. Apart from directing, Mounia has taught film directing at the NHSI film summer institute at Northwestern University, Chicago and was a preceptor in Screenwriting at Columbia University, New York where she was also Richard Peña's teaching assistant. Her previous work includes four fiction films, two web series and recently Lights, an omnibus feature film made of 6 chapters directed by 6 directors, including herself, from Breaking Wave Pictures, a collective she co-founded in New York.Her last short film, Submarine, was in the official selection of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in the Cinefondation category. It also had its North American premiere at the Toronto international Film Festival and its MENA premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival where it won the Muhr Jury Prize. Submarine was awarded the James Bridges production grant, the Kodak Motion Picture Product Grant, the IFP Audience award, the Liberty Global Best Film Award at the Denver Film Festival and an honorable mention at the Atlanta Film Festival.Just recently, Mounia was chosen by the Cannes Film Festival's Director's fortnight's Factory to represent Lebanon at the 70th Cannes Film Festival as part of Lebanon Factory. She co-wrote and co-directed with Costa Rican director Neto Villalobos and their film "El Gran Libano" opened the Directors Fortnight on May 18, 2017.She is writing her feature film COSTA BRAVA with Spanish co-writer Clara Roquet with which she will be participating in the Cannes Film Festival's Cinefondation Residency. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Cyril Aris

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Releases by Year

Mounia Akl on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 2011 to 2018. See the full graphs of the number of Mounia Akl movies released per year from 2011 till 2018.

Top Genres

Mounia Akl works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 33% of Mounia Akl movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Mounia Akl worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Mounia Akl has worked on is 7.6.

7.6 / 10

Mounia Akl's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Comedy,Drama,Romance
A Sad and Beautiful World (2026)

Across three decades of passion, loss, and hope, Nino and Yasmina are bound by a magnetic relationship. Torn between love and survival, they must decide whether to build a family in Lebanon or leave their home despite tragedies.

7.4/10110 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Documentary
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano (2023)

On August 4th, 2020, the catastrophic explosion at the port of Beirut leaves a large part of the Lebanese capital in ruins. In the midst of the chaos, a troubled film crew face an overwhelming decision: to continue the production of their movie or abandon it? As they face the aftermath of the catastrophe, they are torn between their firm belief in the transformative power of cinema and a deep sense of cynicism about its ability to effect change in a nation plagued by economic turmoil and societal collapse. Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano chronicles their struggles and highlights the crew's resilience as they strive to find meaning and purpose in their work amidst the devastation.

7.4/1087 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Drama
Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021)

7/10106 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Drama
Do Not Disturb (2025)

Examinings the private lives of guests checking into hotel rooms around the world.

6.5/10100 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Drama
Costa Brava (2021)

/10106 min

Available in 5 platform(s).