Manal Issa

In post-war Lebanon, Ida, a young Lebanese girl, flees her small village and her alcoholic mother and goes to the big city. There, she starts dating a European man not knowing what is in store for her.

Una historia del viaje milagroso realizado por las hermanas nadadoras Yusra y Sarah Mardini que huyeron como refugiadas de la Siria devastada por la guerra para vivir una nueva vida en Europa y la oportunidad de competir en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de 2016.

In 1983, French actress Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when she challenges film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972).

A young woman makes her way back home to her parents’ house in the middle of the night leaving a bad experience behind. Haunting pressures to fit back into the family dynamics as well as revealing details of her life abroad weigh heavy on her. Feeling cornered, her anxieties resurface, leading her to find solace in another part of her Beirut life that she had forsaken. A life that is for her as familiar and foreign now as it ever was.

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.

Video #2 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò Gravina. Bertrand Bonello reworks the last minutes of his 2016 film Nocturama, which documents the logistical operations and the organization of terrorist attacks in Paris by a group of teenagers. Starting with "Où en êtes-vous?", a video commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in 2014 and conceived as a letter to his then 11-year-old daughter, the director makes a new work altering the final sequence of Nocturama and completely modifying the textual component and the soundtrack in this video essay as a second letter written for his now 17-year-old daughter.

A Lebanese immigrant living in Montreal is haunted by his sister's death.

París, Francia, 1979. Rose, una rebelde huérfana adolescente, y Michel, un joven aspirante a pintor, disfrutan de su loco amor bajo las luces de neón del decadente club nocturno Le Palace, donde establecen una ambigua relación con Lucille y Hubert, dos burgueses bohemios que cambiarán sus vidas.

Ulysses, a secluded artist who mysteriously retired a few years ago, meets Mona, a young art student full of life. The encounter will change them both.

Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. When he chooses her younger, more docile sister Myriam, Nahla finds refuge at her neighbor's, the mysterious Ms Jiji.

Beirut, on an autumn day. The city is on the edge of chaos, but for Maya, Tarek, Yasmina and Rami, aged between 17 and 22 years old, it is just an ordinary day during which they question themselves about sex, love and night time hanging out.

Una mañana en París, un grupo de jóvenes de diferentes medios, cada uno por su lado comienza un baile extraño por los pasillos del metro y las calles de la capital. Parece que siguen un plan. Sus movimientos son precisos, casi peligrosos y convergen en el mismo punto, un gran almacén en el momento en que se cierran las puertas.

En los años 90, Lina de 18 años, llega a París para estudiar. Ella busca lo que nunca encontró en el Líbano, su país de origen: una forma de libertad. Con el instinto de supervivencia como único equipaje va de un París a otro al ritmo de sus encuentros amorosos, porque a los 18 años se sueña con abrazar al mundo y no a un único hombre.

The exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of the building, insecurities start to pump fear. Suspicion takes over panic, prejudices bring polarization and another question appears: Is the real danger coming from inside or outside?