THE FILMMAKER
Leila Basma graduated in 2017 with her film Man is Hunter, which premiered at the Oldenburg International Film Festival. After her graduation she worked as a freelance director, and started developing Sea Salt, which got selected at BACKSTORY The Film Residency. She is currently based in Prague pursuing an MFA in Film Directing the National Film and TV school in Prague, while developing her first feature length documentary The Adam Basma Project and in preparation to enter into the production of Sea Salt. 

THE RESIDENCY
During her time at BAR Basma worked on developing her script for Sea Salt, a fiction short, 15’. Set in a small local resort located on the beach of the Mediterranean sea in Tyre (South of Lebanon), a young waitress is staring with envy at a group of friends, who are jumping from a high rock right into the sea. Out of the group, she later meets a young man, who after a terrifying event in the sea, ends up feeling very close to. Their romantic story comes quickly to an end when he asks her to go away with him. The film is currently in development due to be produced in 2021.