2025
Personal and Collaborative Works
Imagine Me Like A Country Of Love
More Spilled Blood Than Drinkable Water
What Is Not Sacred
30 Years of George Hobeika
Rough Around The Edges
Sound Design
Synopsis Thana Faroq returns to Yemen after a decade of geographical and emotional separation. Oscillating between personal drawings, intimate voice recordings and footage from the streets of Yemen, her thoughts about home take on new forms. As photographs from the past reawaken old memories, this fragmented journey slowly transforms itself into a gentle, personal reflection on absence, belonging and the power of memory when conflict reshapes a place forever. – Koen de Rooij .
Selected as part of the short and mid-length film programme at the IFFR 2026
Synopsis More Spilled Blood Than Drinkable Water (2025), takes place, like two previous works, in Karantina, a former quarantine district in northeastern Beirut bordered by the Beirut River. One of the most polluted parts of the city due to its proximity to the port, a waste sorting facility, and an infamous, now-closed slaughterhouse, the area has witnessed environmental crises and uncounted deaths. In the film, the disembodied voice of a paranormal investigator recounts her contemplative journey along the river’s course as a descent into the underworld, addressing the chemical compounds, spectral echoes, foul odour, and invisible presences that dwell in a dystopian landscape made of flows and stagnations. As the camera follows the emergences and submergences of the riverine water, it captures glimpses of deteriorating ecologies and the wavering reflections of industrial infrastructures while the narration—part investigative report, part diary entry, part speculative fiction—entangles historical chronologies in a non-linear sequence. Blending documentary realism, abstract sequences, and fictional genres, the work slowly excavates deep sediments of sorrows within a wounded landscape haunted by the spirits of uncountable entities, both human and non-human, who lost their lives there. Turning the water body into a portal onto intangible worlds and an uneasy mirror of the present, Aprahamian’s work ponders over and bears witness to the aftermath of violence, historical trauma, and environmental degradation.
Synopsis What is Not Sacred is a documentary that stages a critical conversation around missionary collections. Filmed at Museum Haus Völker und Kulturen in the Steyler Missionare in St. Augustin, it brings together academics, theologians, and missionaries to trace the trajectories of objects caught between colonial history, religious devotion, and cultural heritage. The film interrogates the relationship between the church and the museum, institutions
often viewed as separate yet historically inseparable within the missionary enterprise. By allowing these domains to intersect, the documentary exposes the politics of sacredness and the ongoing negotiations of power, memory, and belonging.
Synopsis This year marks the 30th anniversary of Lebanese brand Georges Hobeika — a house built on craftsmanship, elegance, and a deep love for couture. To celebrate this milestone, the father-son duo behind the heritage maison share a special film with Vogue Arabia, retracing their journey from the very first atelier in Beirut to the global stage of Paris.
Excerpt https://www.voguearabia.com/video/watch/celebrating-30-years-of-georges-hobeika
Editing, Sound Design, and Music Production
Synopsis Rough Around The Edges is a visual auto-ethnography that revisits a traumatic experience of sexual assault in adolescence, emerging from memory and resurfacing as a sensorial encounter with trauma rather than presenting a conventional narrative. Through found footage, filmed material, and 3D renderings, the work layers sonic testimonies from women who have lived through similar experiences. The sound design interrupts these voices with the imagined presence of the assaulter; a deliberately alien timbre that crawls under the skin. Rough Around The Edges functions as a trial in experiential resonance, privileging immersion over exposition.