Experiencing Interruptions?

Our beautiful eyes

Why did they choose us to be part of this cinema school in Paris?
What can we film in here ?
Us, students from a " third world " 
Fatima leads an investigation.

  • Fatima Joumaa
    Director
  • Jennifer Miola
    Producer
  • Constance Gronnier
    Producer
  • Tito Villegas
    Key Cast
  • Gaston Bonkoungou
    Key Cast
  • Hanifa Ali Oumar
    Key Cast
  • Youssef Sanhaji
    Key Cast
  • Marta Smerchynska
    Key Cast
  • Fatima Chreim
    Key Cast
  • Fatima Joumaa
    Editing
  • Nicolas Zarate
    Sound engineer
  • Kareem Ramadan
    Sound Mixing
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    عيوننا الجميلة
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    200 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France, Lebanon
  • Language:
    Arabic, English, French, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - La Fémis.
  • European Film Festival
    Beirut
    Lebanon
    November 6, 2022
    Lebanese Premiere
    Special mention jury award
Director Biography - Fatima Joumaa

Fatima is a young Lebanese filmmaker and photographer. 
After getting her BA in Audiovisuals, from IESAV, USJ. She is continuing her master’s degree in DIRECTING at the Lebanese University.
She starts her career in exploring the boundaries between fiction and reality in her first film “Film Title” and exploiting the theme of her identity and those of Lebanese women around here.
She continues her documentary training at the University of La Fémis in Paris, while finishing her second short documentary “Our beautiful eyes”, addressing subjects such as Exile, the memory, the Archive and the socio-political context of creating films.
She is currently teaching Filmmaking in many Palestinian camps , while working on her third project.

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Director Statement

How can I do a film in a place where I consider myself an outsider,
Where I don’t belong.
I always had this dilemma of not belonging, yet in Paris I am certain and aware of it.
I find myself with 19 people from a “third world”, in a summer school in Paris and each day someone is dedicating to us what cinema should be.
And I have so many questions, regarding our presence in here,
In a sudden way, it becomes so political,
So, I knew that I should start with what I know best, talking to others and letting my questions be heard.
I knew that I wanted to archive in a film those friends I met, those different approaches to cinema, those different ways to live.
I had no idea, how it’s going to end,
The film.
But I knew that everything was going to lead me to my home.