SYNOPSIS
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon at a quaker school in the mountains above Beirut, 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her, while his teachers on different sides of the political divide, try to mask their fears.
SYNOPSIS
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon at a quaker school in the mountains above Beirut, 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her, while his teachers on different sides of the political divide, try to mask their fears.
SYNOPSIS
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon at a quaker school in the mountains above Beirut, 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her, while his teachers on different sides of the political divide, try to mask their fears.
SYNOPSIS:
Thinking they're doing the right thing by taking matters into their own hands, two brothers cross the line when they use a household rifle without their father's consent.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE:
With this minimalist simple story set in a microcosm that is contemporary middle-class rural Lebanon, I wanted to juxtapose the pervasive nature of violence and the fine line of how things can go awry. Lebanon is country with a porous border almost constantly threatened by hostile infiltration. It is on a permanent precipice.
A proverb that propagated and embodies this human story and the state of the world today is 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'.
This coming-of-age parable examines the fragility of fraternal trust and brings into focus the ethics of seemingly innocuous violence and its repercussions.