Cyril Aris

Cyril Aris is a Lebanese director and screenwriter and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences His first fiction feature A Sad and Beautiful World 2025 premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Giornate Degli Autori where it won the Audience Award The film was selected as Lebanons official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Oscars The film also screened at BFI London Palm Springs San Francisco IFF and Seminci Valladolid winning the Audience Award and received Best Screenplay at the Red Sea Saudi Arabia Best Score at Cinémed Montpelier the Grand Prize at Rencontres Cinématographiques in Cannes Best Film at the Asian World Los Angeles Best Film at Tromsø FF Norway the Jury Prize at MedFilm Rome and Audience Awards in Barcelona Florence Ljubljana Ottawa Trondheim among others His documentary Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano 2023 premiered in competition at Karlovy Vary and won a Jury Special Mention It screened at BFI London CPHDOX and 80 festivals worldwide His debut feature The Swing 2018 also premiered at Karlovy Vary and won multiple international awards