Also shown was the feature film “The Stranger” (14/6-Q: 21:30-Cinema City) by Syrian Amir Fakhreddin, which depicts the stagnation in the occupied Golan Heights through the story of doctor Adnan ( Ashraf Barkhum). who returned to the Golan from Russia without completing his studies. He lives on his family farm with his wife, daughter, mother and father (Mohamed Bakri), and his frustration with his daughter grows over time. Adnan’s life changed when he rescued a man wounded in action during the Syrian war. Fakhruddin developed a confusing idea of the national identity of the Arab people, who lived more or less “peacefully” under occupation. The image of the film reflects the geopolitical stagnation of the Syrian population in Syria, and to some extent abroad, chaos and war.
The festival will also showcase one of this year’s most important and beautiful Arabic feature films: The Feathers (16/6-Q: 21: 30-Cinema City) by Egyptian Omar Al-Zuhairi: it’s a story about a failed trick, a metaphorical story about a man who is impossible like a chicken. Combining magical realism and social poetry, Perot builds beauty from waste and ugliness, absorbs cinematic styles and creates his own object. The film that won the Critic’s Week Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival lives without eloquence, which breaks us down with its weight, albeit a very funny one.
Among the most anticipated Lebanese films, Elie Daguerre’s long -awaited debut is The Sea Before You (A Special Invitation), which tells the story of Yana (Manal Issa) who suddenly returns to Beirut, hoping she can find shelter at home. of the family. house. But in The Sea Before You, there is no escaping the stagnation and frustration that plague us. Daguerre reveals the fate of Yana, the fate of Beirut and the floating problems plaguing the girl and the city. For the duet of Joanna Hajji Touma and Khalil Jorej, they presented “Maya’s Notebooks” (3/7 – Q: 18: 00 – “Workshop” / Jiyeh), which was first shown in “Berlin”. The story of the film begins when a package arrives in Canada from Beirut to the home of Maya (Rim Turki/Manal Issa) and her teenage son Alex (Paloma Vautier). The large box contains notebooks, photographs, scraps and tapes that Maya sent in the 1980s to her friend Lisa (Rim Khoury), who moved to Paris to escape the civil war. Maya decides to keep the box locked and prevent Alex from seeing its contents. But, of course, nothing is more strange than forbidden. Maya felt that she knew very little about her mother and started digging in the drawer. He began secretly investigating what was there, tracking the sequence of notebooks and cassettes, written and recorded in the eighties, according to the aesthetics of the time. She learns about Maya’s friendships, memories of the war, her relationship with her mother and father, her great love for the Raja (Hasan Aqil/Rabbi Mrue) and war -torn Lebanon. In the film, based on real -life notebooks by Joanna Hadji Tom and wartime photos by Khalil Jorage, they create a celebration of teenage friendship and a poem for young people strangled by armed conflict. The festival will also screen Mohamed Sowaid’s Day Without Tomorrow (12/6 – Q: 20: 30 – Cinema City), which has been in production for 18 years and is considered his most personal film. For Ghassan Salhab, he will present his film The River, which was shown for the first time at the Locarno Festival.
Source: Al-Akhbar
