Remi Itani is a Lebanese film director, producer and university lecturer. Graduate of the London Film School MA Filmmaking with distinction, Remi started her career as a documentary director for Al Jazeera Documentary Channel. She has participated in numerous writing and directing workshops, among them a filmmaking workshop with the acclaimed director Werner Herzog. Interested in woman-centred films, her fiction work explores transformative moments of women’s isolation, by creating indelible evocations of a silent psychological inter-zone between the everyday and the uncanny.

Her films were considered to more than twenty international film festivals such as IDFA Documentary Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Rotterdam International Film Festival. She has been awarded the Boghossian prestigious residency award, and is currently working on her first feature fiction “In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You were Full of Joy”, which has been granted the Doha Film Institute Fund and selected for the Torino Film Lab.