Born in Egypt in 1984, Nadine Salib graduated from film school in 2006. She started her career as an assistant director in commercials and then headed to the independent field in the year 2009. In 2011, she joined filmmaking workshops where she directed her first short documentary Dawn, which won the second prize in the Baghdad International Film Festival and the first prize at the 12th Goethe Independent Film Festival. Um Ghayeb (Mother Of The Absent) is her first feature-length documentary for which she was supported by IDFA's Bertha Fund, the Arab Documentary Film Program of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and Hot Docs Blue Ice.

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