Maysaloun Hamoud

[2] In 2004, introduced to cinema by an animator friend, she joined the Minshar School of Art in Tel-Aviv to study film.

[3] In 2010, Hamoud directed Sense of Morning, a short film inspired by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's Memory of Forgetfulness (1987).

In the film, the poet strives to continue his daily routine of coffee and cigarettes on the last day of the siege of Beirut.

She has said that, according to him, her film is a sort of extension of Elkabetz's trilogy To Take a Wife (2004), Shiva (2007) and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014).

[4] In 2017, Hamoud received the Women in Motion Young Talents Award at the Cannes Film Festival from Isabelle Huppert.