Lebanese director, Manon Namoor will launch her new short film ‘Barakat’ within the short film competition at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. Namoor, who graduated from the Audio Visual Art division at Notre Dame University was selected as one of the rising directors in the Arab world by the Arab Stars of Tomorrow magazine and by juries of short films at several festivals, notably, Namur’s Festival International du Film Francophone (Francophone Film Festival in Namur) and the Beirut International Women Film Festival. Currently, she is the coordinator of Notre Dame International Film Festival and the art director in a number of films. (NNA, August 21, 2019)