Due To Love
Screenings:
December 10, 2025 Casa do Comum, Lisbon
This deeply personal, almost autobiographical film confronts family taboos that haunted the director across cultures. Created as a graduation short, it became a way to understand and love his family despite moral distance. Still in progress, it aims to fill the silence around queerness in Middle Eastern cinema — a message to those who feel alone.
Elisa Ward is an Italo-Lebanese writer/director who's been passionate about telling stories through films ever since she could hold a camera. She studies filmmaking in Berlin, and works as a freelancer.