Nadine Salib is an Egyptian film director and writer. She studied film directing at the IAMS. She started her career as an assistant director in feature films such as 'In the last days of the city', directed by Tamer El Said. Her first Short Film Dawn won a prize at Baghdad Film Festival 2012. Her first feature length documentary Um Ghayeb (Mother of the Unborn), released in 2014 won the FIPRESCI for Best Documentary at Abu Dhabi Film Festival and the special jury prize for the first appearance competition at IDFA. Um Ghayeb was also rewarded best documentary at Afrycam Festival in Poland 201… Nadine Salib is an Egyptian film director and writer. She studied film directing at the IAMS. She started her career as an assistant director in feature films such as 'In the last days of the city', directed by Tamer El Said. Her first Short Film Dawn won a prize at Baghdad Film Festival 2012. Her first feature length documentary Um Ghayeb (Mother of the Unborn), released in 2014 won the FIPRESCI for Best Documentary at Abu Dhabi Film Festival and the special jury prize for the first appearance competition at IDFA. Um Ghayeb was also rewarded best documentary at Afrycam Festival in Poland 2016 and 1st prize for best documentary at Mizna twin cities festival in USA.More
