Talal Khoury

Talal Khoury is a Lebanese award-winning cinematographer, based in Paris since 2020, working across fiction and documentary. His films have screened at major international festivals including Berlinale, Visions du Réel, IDFA, Rotterdam, Venice Biennale, and the Dubai International Film Festival.

His work includes Veins of the World by Byambaa Davaa, winner of the German Film Award for Best Children’s Film and Best Cinematography at Real to Reel, and Taste of Cement by Ziad Kalthoum, which received over 35 international awards worldwide, including two for cinematography. He has also collaborated with directors such as Rana Eid (Panoptic), Sky Fitzgerald, Frank Scheffer, Mazen Khaled, and Karim Kassem.

Khoury’s approach is driven by the search for the soul of each project. He sees composition and light as the subconscious of the story, and the creation of a film’s visual language as the essence of his cinematography.