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Chadi ZEINEDDINE – Director and Screenwriter
The film tackles the story of four persons and their relationship to Beirut. All four of them live an internal state of war within the actual war in the country. The stories are different. The first one is the story of the actor Rafik Ali Ahmad (Youssef), who decides to live in a wrecked space. This space acts as a reflection to the demolished view of Beirut. And because I love this city with all of its imperfections, I try, with my camera, to make this hostile place look at its most beautiful.
The three other stories actually took place in this wrecked shelter, yet the characters that inhabited this place moved to Beirut, though unsuccessfully. Basically, this is the outline of the story.
The film doesn’t have that much of a dialogue in it, only 15 minutes or so are spoken. Instead, there are vivid emotions that are being explored. This is why we tried to highlight the inner war state that the characters were living into, rather than the actual state of war that was ravaging the country.
The characters never meet throughout the film, since each story is different from the other, the core element remains in the fact that Youssef, who lives in this place, collects various photos, hence memories, that shape the scenery of his room. He found most of these pictures over the course of his life, many of these were left by people who fled during the war, leaving only traces. Three of these pictures are those of the stories that we will be following, making that the only link tying these persons together. The place is the sole bond between the four of them.
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