Beirut is a wonderful town. It’s like you’re at the center of everything. In Beirut, between 1975 and 1990, there was a civil war, everybody wanted to exterminate everybody. Today, war is over. It stopped a day, like that, after having corrupted our lives. I wanted to shoot the void it had left. Its ghostly presence. That wound…
“I met Mohamad A. in 2000. I spent months listening to him telling me how he fought and killed. Through him, I wanted to know if I too would have killed in that war. As he talked, I let my moral guard down. I no longer had any critical sense. I even had empathy for him, a killer” (Danielle Arbid). A conversation between Danielle and Mohamad, resulting in a frankly straightforwa...
Suzanne, eine Witwe über 60, und Osman, jung, schwarz, Sudanese, Gelegenheitsarbeiter und ein Einwanderer ohne Papiere in Beirut, verlieben sich ineinander. Doch ihre Liebe stt auf heftigen Widerstand.
In France, a year after the pandemic, the employees of a chicken slaughterhouse in the midst of liquidation impulsively decide to detain the Secretary of State for Industry who initially visited the factory to negotiate with them. For four chaotic days, the fates of Pascal Montville and his jailers will get intertwined… In the factory now surrounded by the police, the media, an...