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 He feels the Lebanese queer past hasn’t been archived well enough so he views Adonis as the golden hen.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 is taken by his friends to a prostitute for the first time. Three troubled teens on their way to win their acceptance into manhood. Though several unexpected occurrences take Etienne on an unforeseen journey into himself.
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
해안 지역의 작은 마을 므샤칼에서 존경 받는 음악 교사 ‘레바’는 학창시절 첫사랑 ‘라라’와의 결혼에 성공하고 눈에 넣어도 아프지 않을 아들 ‘가디’가 탄생한다. 하지만 특수 장애를 안고 태어난 ‘가디’는 매일 밤 발코니에서 괴성에 가까운 노래를 부르다 ‘악마’로 불리기 시작하고, 주민들은 ‘가디’를 내몰기 위한 항의를 시작한다. 아들을 보호 시설로 보낼 수 없는 아빠 ‘레바’는 마을 사람들의 마음을 돌리기 위해 작전을 세운다. 과연 ‘가디’가 마을 사람들을 구원할 천사라는 행복한 거짓말에 성공하고, 무사히 마을에 남을 수 있을까?
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.
