Francois Yazbeck

A cosmic odyssey of consciousness in a post-human Beirut. It follows two souls trapped in an underground purgatory, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare.

A cosmic odyssey of consciousness in a post-human Beirut. It follows two souls trapped in an underground purgatory, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare.

A cosmic odyssey of consciousness in a post-human Beirut. It follows two souls trapped in an underground purgatory, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare.

A cosmic odyssey of consciousness in a post-human Beirut. It follows two souls trapped in an underground purgatory, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare.

A cosmic odyssey of consciousness in a post-human Beirut. It follows two souls trapped in an underground purgatory, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare.

A cosmic odyssey of consciousness in a post-human Beirut. It follows two souls trapped in an underground purgatory, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare.

A cosmic odyssey of consciousness in a post-human Beirut. It follows two souls trapped in an underground purgatory, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare.

Jamil and Milad are brothers with very different personalities. Jamil is a get-up-and-go carpenter, following in his father's footsteps. Milad is a sensitive trumpeter and dreamer. As their home country, Syria, sinks further into war, Jamil emigrates first to Beirut and then makes an illegal journey to Sweden. Milad stays in Damascus, but eventually can’t take it any longer and decides to leave to Berlin. Their cousin Wissam records their journey for over five years, bringing back childhood memories while questioning the true meaning of home. The traumatic war in Syria plays a background role in this documentary, which focuses more on the psychological effects of being uprooted and the way the brothers, who had previously hardly travelled, deal with emigration. It draws with humility and admiration the human ability to cope with change, as radical as it can be. Jamil and Milad are achievers, each adapting his own way.

Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia sent to her best friend from 1980’s Beirut. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.

"1982" is a life-affirming coming-of-age tale set at an idyllic school in Lebanon’s mountains on the eve of a looming invasion. It unfolds over a single day and follows an 11-year-old boy’s relentless quest to profess his love to a girl in his class. As the invasion encroaches on Beirut, it upends the day, threatening the entire country and its cohesion. Within the microcosm of the school, the film draws a harrowing portrait of a society torn between its desire for love and peace and the ideological schisms unraveling its seams. In his debut feature, director Oualid Mouaness delivers an ode to innocence in which he revisits one of the most cataclysmic moments in Lebanon's history through the lens of a child and his vibrant imagination. The film demonstrates the complexities of love and war, and the resilience of the human spirit.

ギリシャの北に位置する北マケドニアで製作された傑作ドキュメンタリー。電気も水道もない谷で、寝たきりの盲目の老母と暮らすヨーロッパ最後の自然養蜂家の女性のユニークな日常を、3年にわたってとらえていく。