Cyril Aris is a Lebanese director and screenwriter, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®. His first fiction feature, A Sad and Beautiful World (2025), premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Giornate Degli Autori, where it won the Audience Award. The film was selected as Lebanon’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Oscars®. The film also screened at BFI London, Palm Springs, San Francisco IFF, and Seminci (Valladolid), winning the Audience Award, and received Best Screenplay at the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia), Best Score at Cinémed (Montpelier), the Grand Prize at Rencontres Cinématographiques in Cannes, Best Film at the Asian World (Los Angeles), Best Film at Tromsø FF (Norway), the Jury Prize at MedFilm (Rome), and Audience Awards in Barcelona, Florence, Ljubljana, Ottawa, Trondheim, among others. His documentary Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano (2023) premiered in competition at Karlovy Vary, and won a Jury Special Mention. It screened at BFI London, CPH:DOX and 80+ festivals worldwide. His debut feature The Swing (2018) also premiered at Karlovy Vary and won multiple international awards.
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Biography from TMDB.
- November 27, 1987 (38)
- Beirut - Lebanon
- Editor, director and writer
- 3 on MovieCove · 10 credits in all
What are Cyril Aris' films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 1
A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 1 · Charged 1 · Intense 1
Steady 1 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 2
Resolved 1 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Cyril Aris' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 3 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Cyril Aris' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
10 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Costa Brava, Lebanon(2021)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Beating Hearts (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Death of Nintendo(2020)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
The Swing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The President's Visit (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
A Good Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Submarine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Bahiya & Mahmoud (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Career shape
A full career of 10 titles from 2011 to 2026.
How do Cyril Aris' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 68th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 69th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
None of their 3 titles divides audiences: 2 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Cyril Aris work with?
People who share at least 2 of Cyril Aris' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Joe Saade shares the most, 2.
Cinematographers
- Joe SaadeShared titles: A Sad and Beautiful World (2025), Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Joe Saade
Producers
- Georges SchoucairShared titles: A Sad and Beautiful World (2025), Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Georges Schoucair
Mixed roles
- Mounia AklShared titles: A Sad and Beautiful World (2025), Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Mounia Akl
