Krystel Abou Karam

Krystel Abou Karam is a filmmaker and editor born in Beirut in 1992. Her love for story-telling led her to learn editing at the age of 16 when she pursued this path by enrolling in the School of Cinema and Audio-Visual Directing in Lebanon. Months after graduating, she worked for two years as an associate editor in the Lebanese film “Capernaum”, carefully building the story from 400 hours of rushes by a cast of nonprofessional actors. The film premiered in Cannes in 2018 and won the Cannes Jury Prize. Right after, she edited a German feature documentary “Peter Lindbergh - Women’s Stories”, mixing interviews, archives, photographs and film rolls to tell the life story of one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. The film premiered in Berlinale 2019. Krystel is currently based in Beirut where she edits short documentaries, fiction, TVCs, music videos, and more recently is focused on developing feature documentaries with directors.