THE FILMMAKER
Nadine Salib started her career as an assistant director; she worked as a first assistant and script supervisor in many short and feature length films. In 2012 she directed her first short documentary Dawn, which won a number of prizes. Um Ghayeb, or Mother of the unborn is her first feature-length documentary, which had its European premier in IDFA 2014, and the Arab premiere in Abu Dhabi 2014. Salib won a number of awards such as the Peter Wintonick Special Jury Award for First Appearance competition from IDFA, and the FIPRESCI for best documentary in Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The film was screened at many international festivals such as Thessaloniki Film Festival in 2015, Yamagata Film Festival and Transylvania Film Festival in 2015 and many others. 

THE RESIDENCY
During her time at BAR, Salib worked on her first fiction feature film. The plot is centered around a mythical tale of a mute young girl called Yam, who lived in a segregated village, divorced from time, inhabited only by a group of exiled people.  Salib filmed sequences in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon using non-professional actors. Throughout her residency she polished her script, casted local actors and began production, establishing the groundwork for a project that continued beyond the timeframe of the residency.