women directors programme
And the Fish Fly Above Our Heads
(Dima Adib El-Horr / 2025 / 70 min / Lebanon)
A woman films three men on a public beach in Beirut, a place where only men come to gaze at the horizon.
I film three men adrift, silent witnesses to a country collapsing under the weight of wars, social despair, and economic crisis. Not expecting a miracle to save them, they wait by the sea, with the same quiet fatalism that defines their lives. Their waiting becomes mine, in a space suspended between sleep and wakefulness, between dreams and reality, between past and present.
Dima Adib El-Horr
Karolina Lucyna Domagalska – activist, reporter and documentary director. She is an anthropologist by training and a graduate in gender studies. Author of the book “I won’t apologize for giving birth. Stories of families with in vitro”, which was in the finals of the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award. Author of the podcast “Something for A”, the first podcast on abortion in Poland.
