Person
Ali Cherri
Directing
Biography
Ali Cherri (b. Beirut, Lebanon) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Paris. He received a Bachelor of Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut and a Master of Performing Arts from DasArts – Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam. Cherri is the recipient of Harvard University’s Robert E. Fulton Fellowship (2016). His work has featured in prominent exhibitions including If you prick us do we not bleed? at The National Gallery, London, The Milk of Dreams The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale Venice, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2020); The Gatekeepers at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille – Manifesta 13, France (2020); Comme un parfum d’aventure at the Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, France (2020); Phantom Limb at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2019); But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and at Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan (2018); Statues Also Die at Museo Egizio, Milan (2018); and Somniculus at Jeu de Paume, Paris and CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2017). His films have been shown in International Film Festivals including New Directors/New Films MoMA NY; Cinéma du Réel, Centre Pompidou; CPH:DOX (winner of NewVision Award); Dubai International Film Festival (winner Best Director); VideoBrasil (Southern Panorama Award); Berlinale; Toronto International Film Festival & San Francisco International Film Festival amongst other.
Known for
The Disquiet
Screenplay

Ashes
2003
The Digger
Director

The Blue Star
L'Homme

The Sentinel
Director

The Watchman
Writer

The Dam
Director

Room 999
Self

Somniculus
Director

Pipe Dreams
Director
Filmography
- 2026The SentinelDirector
- 2024The WatchmanWriter
- 2023Room 999Self
- 2023The DamDirector
- 2022Of Men and Gods and MudDirector
- 2020The Blue StarL'Homme
- 2017SomniculusDirector
- 2015The DiggerDirector
- 2013The DisquietScreenplay
- 2013Gazing at the CatastropheDirector
- 2011Pipe DreamsDirector
- 2006Untitled (To the Lebanese Citizens)Director
- 2005A Circle Around the SunDirector
- 2003Ashes
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