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Los Badri han escapado de Beirut para construir su utopía particular lejos de la polución y la conflictividad de la gran urbe. Pero este oasis de resistencia al capitalismo global se ve amenazado por los avances de un vertedero cercano y las grietas internas dentro de la familia.
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Montreal, el día de Navidad, Maia y su hija, Alex, reciben una misteriosa caja enviada desde Beirut con cuadernos, cassettes y fotos que Maia, entre los 13 y los 18 años, fue enviando a su mejor amiga que huyó de la guerra civil. Maia se niega a enfrentar su pasado, pero su hija descubre a escondidas, la adolescencia tumultuosa de su madre y la historia de su país de origen.
Producer
Lebanon, July 2006. War is raging between Hezbollah and Israel. During a 24h ceasefire, Marwan heads out in search of his father who refused to leave his Southern village. As the ceasefire is quickly broken, Marwan finds himself under the rain of bombs and takes shelter in a house with a group of elders. Suddenly, a group of Israeli soldiers enter the first floor. Trapped in the house and hostages of their own fears, the next three days will see the situation spiral out of control.
Producer
Durante la invasión de Líbano de 1982, un niño de 11 años que estudia en un colegio privado a las afueras de la ciudad de Beirut trata de contarle a una compañera de clase que está enamorado de ella. Mientras tanto, distintos profesores exponen su punto de vista en relación a la situación política que están viviendo, tratando de enmascarar su miedo.
Co-Producer
En el Irán actual, Maryam una joven de 22 años, es sentenciada a muerte tras matar por accidente a su marido, Nasser, de 65. La única persona que puede salvarla es Mona, la hija de Nasser. Para ello, solo tiene que acudir a un conocido programa de televisión y perdonar en directo a Maryam. Pero cuesta perdonar cuando ambas se ven obligadas a revivir el pasado.
Associate Producer
Moments before his capture by police, a thief digs a grave to hide a bag of money. Released from prison years later he returns to retrieve the bag, only to find a shrine to an Unknown Saint build directly over his loot, and a brand new village constructed all around it.
Co-Producer
En Nairobi, las estudiantes Kena y Ziki llevan vidas muy diferentes, pero las dos hacen lo posible por alcanzar sus sueños. Sus caminos se cruzan en medio de una campaña electoral que enfrenta a sus respectivos padres. Las chicas se gustan, pero la sociedad keniana es muy conservadora, y tendrán que elegir entre el amor y la seguridad.
Producer
A Certain Nasser is the compelling journey of ninety years old Lebanese filmmaker, Georges Nasser, an idealist who couldn't adapt to his country's failing system but whose eyes still light up at the mention of his greatest love, Cinema.
Producer
When hungover Bassem wakes up by the lake shore among dead fish, his sister Youmna, whom he hasn't seen for 12 years, is there with a coffin.
Producer
Desperate to escape Lebanon and settle in Europe, Lillo buys himself a Syrian passport and is ready to appropriate the Syrian identity to obtain asylum. However, what he might not be ready for yet, is everything that comes along with being a Syrian refugee today.
Producer
The octopus believes that the hand in front of it is a prey, but it doesn't know that behind every hand, there is an arm...
Co-Producer
Cartas da Guerra está basada en un libro del renombrado autor portugués António Lobo Antunes. La novela epistolar, publicada en 2005, reúne las cartas que un joven soldado envió a su mujer desde Angola entre 1971 y 1973, durante la Guerra Colonial. Al igual que el propio Lobo Antunes, el joven soldado es médico y escritor en ciernes.
Co-Producer
A Palestinian comedy about women crammed in a tiny beauty parlor on the Gaza Strip
Producer
A conversation between two strangers: one is ashore and the other is on the sea. The conversation’s depth coincides with the height of the railing. Their interdependence is apparent and described in different speeds. The filmmaker’s thoughts become apparent. The ship’s departure accelerates the conversation. Finally, the ship sets sail.
Associate Producer
Una solitaria ama de casa de mediana edad atiende a un soldado con la enfermedad del sueño, cayendo en alucinaciones que desencadenan en sueños extraños, fantasmas y romances.
Producer
Riad, a middle-aged man, holds a firearm shop in a neighbourhood of Beirut. When he meets up with his friends or goes hunting with them, it is often with the aim of evoking together their memories of the civil war fought in the Christian militia. They live in nostalgia for the war that impassioned their youth. Director Myriam El Hajj builds solid architectural images that interrogate — and, perhaps, over time even manage to articulate — the intimate origins of violence that never seems to depart and a past that doesn't want to let go of the present.
Producer
Each morning Beirut awakens to a new murder seemingly committed by a serial killer, with victims found emptied of their blood. At the same time a doctor, Khalil, begins to experience strange symptoms that destabilise him and transform his life. A connection slowly emerges that seems to link Khalil to these victims. Salhab’s body of films have come to narrate the state of Lebanon – and Beirut in particular – during and after the civil war, and this film is no exception.
