Shaden Safieddine Tazi, winner of the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film for "Quelques instants de bonheur," on the podium at the 83rd Venice Film Festival, Sept. 12, 2026. (Credit: Tiziana Fabi/AFP)
Lebanon took the stage in Venice with her. On September 12, 2026, during the closing ceremony of the 83rd Venice Film Festival at the Lido, Moroccan-Lebanese filmmaker Shaden Safieddine Tazi received the Orizzonti Prize for Best Short Film for "A Few Moments of Happiness" (Quelques instants de bonheur)."This award overwhelms me because above all, it’s a film about Lebanon and about the voices that reached me from there during the war, while I was in Paris: the voice of my father, those of my family, my friends, but also all those voices that came through our phones and screens," she told L’Orient-Le Jour after her victory."Making this film was also a way to give space to those voices, to their silences, their humor, their fear, to everything that continues to exist amid violence. That these voices could resonate...
Lebanon took the stage in Venice with her. On September 12, 2026, during the closing ceremony of the 83rd Venice Film Festival at the Lido, Moroccan-Lebanese filmmaker Shaden Safieddine Tazi received the Orizzonti Prize for Best Short Film for "A Few Moments of Happiness" (Quelques instants de bonheur)."This award overwhelms me because above all, it’s a film about Lebanon and about the voices that reached me from there during the war, while I was in Paris: the voice of my father, those of my family, my friends, but also all those voices that came through our phones and screens," she told L’Orient-Le Jour after her victory."Making this film was also a way to give space to those voices, to their silences, their humor, their fear, to everything that continues to exist amid violence. That these voices could...
