Most artist documentaries look back from the safety of success. But we are starting much earlier! RIBAL – Two Worlds, One Artist asks a harder, more urgent question:

What does it take to establish yourself as an artist?

Since 2020, the camera has followed painter and classical musician Ribal Molaeb through the conflicts and pressures that define an emerging career: navigating two art forms, two cultures, and two different working worlds. The series tracks the constant negotiation between opportunity and doubt.

We met with art collectors, patrons, gallerists, critics, politicians, musicians, enthusiasts and interviewed them in exclusive settings. 

In this series, Ribal is being an example of study to answer the core question of the series: What does it take to establish yourself as an artist

And from that question, new questions appear – What defines success for an artist?