Warsha

Winner of the Jury Award for International Fiction at Sundance, this surprising and transcendent short stars a gender-defying belly dancer as a crane operator in Beirut.

Middle Eastern masculinity is turned inside out in Dania Bdeir’s unexpectedly transcendent and uplifting Warsha, which follows Mohammad (charismatic belly dancer Khansa), a Syrian migrant who works as a crane operator in Beirut. When he volunteers to cover a shift on one of the tallest and most dangerous cranes in Lebanon, he’s able to live out his secret passion – and find freedom.