Mimera Films

Jesus

Adapted from a screenplay by Carl Theodor Dreyer, this is a feature film about the life of Jesus from his public ministry to the crucifixion (work-in-progress).

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The Cloud Affair

A chamber piece with a handful of characters and shot mostly in one location over a tense weekend, the film narrates the doomed love of a magnetic, spellbinding young couple both suspects in the murder of a famed city builder responsible for recking their lives (work-in-progress).

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Phygē

Set in a single day in Berlin, Phygē ("exile" in Greek) chronicles the love stories of three characters living in exile. They look for love in themselves and with others as the world turns in different directions around them (work-in-progress).

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Elektra

Set in the ruins of Beirut’s Piccadilly Theater after the war, the film tells the story of five actresses entangled in a web of deceit, revenge, and murder (released in 2023).

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ABOUT

Mimera Films is the film practice studio of Hisham Bizri.

Hisham Bizri is a Lebanese-born American film director, writer, and producer. He started working in cinema as an assistant director to Raúl Ruiz in NYC and to Miklós Jancsó in Budapest. He has directed 29 short films and has written a number of screenplays. In 2023, he released Elektra, his directorial feature film debut which he also wrote and co-produced.

Bizri holds a Guggenheim, McKnight, Salomon, LEF, Jerome, Bogliasco, Rockefeller, and Ford fellowships in film as well as the Rome Prize from the American Academy. In 2017, he was awarded The Andrei Tarkovsky Prize for best director in Chicago.

Jesus

The Cloud Affair

Phygē

Elektra

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FEATURED FILMS

Jesus

Elektra Trailer

The Wanderer

Beneath the Wide Wide Heaven

Sirocco

A Film