Cyril Aris

Cyril Aris is a Lebanese Director & Screenwriter based in New York and Beirut, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®. 

His debut feature documentary, The Swing (2018) premiered at the Karlovy Vary IFF, and won awards in El-Gouna, Rome, London, Budapest and Tunisia. The Hollywood Reporter called it an ‘Intimate and moving […] meditation on truth, love and lies in the face of illness and death’.

His second feature documentary Dancing on the Edge of Volcano (2023), recipient a post-production grant from the Sundance Institute in the US and the Robert Bösch Filmprize in Germany, and produced by Reynard Films (Germany) and Abbout Productions (Lebanon), is set to premiere in the Main Competition of the 57th Karlovy Vary IFF in July 2023.