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“Look Back in… is an open sentence, an open day talk about what we look back to, why and why not. How to fill in the space, and the time in this phrase? What is Back? What is forward? Where do we actually stand?”
Liwaa Yazji is an established Filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright, and a poet. She lived and worked in Damascus where she obtained her degrees in English Literature and Theater Studies. She has several publications: Here in The Park (play), In Peace we Leave Home (poetry collection), Saved (a translation of Bond`s play into Arabic). After that she moved to pursue her work projects in Beirut and then in Berlin. Her work is internationally celebrated; her debut feature documentary Haunted premiered in FID Marseille and won the Jury Mention Special Prize and Al-Waha Bronze in FIFAG Tunisia, her play Goats premiered in the Royal Court Theatre in London. She is a writer in the Birth Debate Project- Royal Exchange Theater Manchester with her play Q&Q. She got the prestigious Berliner fellowship for non-German speaking authors in 2018. She is a Berlinale Talent, and her coming feature documentary Hostage was part of DOC Station Berlinale and DOK Fest Munich Market and won a Prize from the Documentary Association of Europe. She co-wrote Qaid Majhoul, and a mini-series produced for OSN in 2020, and has the Doha Film Institute Development Grant for her coming project HEIM. She wrote the Libretto for the music theater\ opera Songs for Days to Come that will open in June 2022 in Osnabrück Theater. She received a grant from Meta .Theater to research and pursue working on her coming play Terror.