Camera Department Manager
Two women meet as waitresses and tentatively become friends. They are both from the Levant and living in exile in France. A film about the Silk Road, about exploitation – then and now – and about female solidarity, friendship and solace.
Adonis is a queer seventy-three-year-old man. He currently lives in the Ashrafieh district of Beirut. He continues to water his numerous plants daily and host his numerous friends for cheerful dinners every other week. Adonis is full of stories from the sixties, seventies, eighties and the nineties. Though he did not live continuously in the country, he has been travelling the world, with constant visits to his homeland. Conversations with him can easily switch from academic intricacies to plain old gossip about sexual matters or unresolved crimes. Ameer is a thirty-something younger man who wants to gather stories and anecdotes from Adonis. He feels the Lebanese queer past hasn’t been archived well enough so he views Adonis as the golden hen. However, when he notices Adonis has it easier to be physically nude than to reveal the full nudity of his feelings, he starts feeling frustrated. What else to expect, would Adonis say, from someone who always lived a double life?
Cinematography
Etienne es llevado por sus amigos a una prostituta por primera vez. Tres adolescentes con problemas en su camino para ganar su aceptación en la edad adulta. Aunque varios sucesos inesperados llevan a Etienne a un viaje imprevisto hacia sí mismo.
Cinematography
Director of Photography
The Beach House is a film about four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.
Director of Photography
Leba es un profesor de música que vive en un pequeño barrio de una ciudad costera del Líbano. Trabaja como profesor de música y se casa con su novia de la infancia, Lara. Para sorpresa de sus familiares, vecinos y amigos, tras tener a dos niños en muy poco tiempo, Lara vuelve a estar embarazada de un tercero, al que llaman Ghadi, sin embargo, los médicos le advierten que el niño va a tener necesidades especiales. ¿Podrán Leba y Lara tener el bebé? ¿Será Ghadi un orgullo o una carga para la familia? Tras dar a luz, fenómenos extraños esperan y afectan a los ciudadanos de ese pequeño barrio y a sus creencias. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director of Photography
On a Sunday morning in Beirut, frustrated Mona and her miserable taxi-driver husband Abu Rami set out for a drive across Lebanon to visit their son Rami and his wife. After 40 years of marriage, the couple nag and squabble and Mona is plagued with doubts about his fidelity. When the car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Abu Rami and Mona are stranded without help. While waiting, tensions rise and Mona confronts her husband with her suspicions. He angrily dismisses her thoughts as absurd, but is eventually overcome by guilt and confesses to leading a double life. Mona is devastated and abandons Abu Rami on the side of the road, but not before shattering his world with a secret of her own.
Director of Photography
Syrian traditional story-telling, folklore, tales, fictional mythological characters play an important role in their culture. This tradition is passed generation to the next generation — from grandparents to grandchildren. However, in the modern era these stories are being lost. This is happening in Damascus, the capital and the second largest city of Syria, too.
