Director
Cyril Aris
38 years · Beirut - Lebanon · 9 films
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 Lebanon’s 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, CPH:DOX and 80+ festivals worldwide. His debut feature The Swing (2018) also premiered at Karlovy Vary and won multiple international awards.
Best known for
Filmography 9
A Sad and Beautiful World
2026 · Director, Writer
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
2023 · Screenplay, Editor
On Plex
Costa Brava, Lebanon
2022 · Editor
On Kanopy
Beating Hearts
2020 · Producer, Editor
Death of Nintendo
2020 · Editor
On Hoopla
The Swing
2019 · Director, Editor
On True Story
The President's Visit
2017 · Director
On Kanopy
Submarine
2016 · Producer
On Filmzie
Bahiya & Mahmoud
2011 · Man in Street