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Caramel is a deliciously indulgent and intimate account of five women working together in a beauty parlor. Beautiful Layal is oblivious to the gaze of a local admirer and instead fixates on a married man.  Nisrine will soon be married but is afraid her fiancé will discover he isn’t her first lover. Rima has designs on one of her stunning, dark-haired customers. Jamal is an aspiring actress and is refusing to grow old, while ageing Rose is overwhelmed when she discovers true love for the first time.  As the women from different generations share in each other’s experiences and emotions, the beauty parlor becomes a colorful hub of friendship and wisdom. Caramel weaves a delicious tale of life and is as sweet as it’s title.

Born in Lebanon in 1974, she passed her Baccalauréat in 1993. She then studied media at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut and graduated in 1997. 11 Rue Pasteur, her school film project was awarded first prize for short films at IMA’s Biennale du Cinéma arabe in Paris in 1998. She went on to directing commercials and many musical videos for well known Middle-Eastern entertainers and was awarded several prizes in 2002 and 2003. In 2004, she attended the Résidence du Festival de Cannes to write Caramel, her first feature length film.