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Vatche Boulghourjian | Lebanon, France, Qatar, United Arab Emirates | 2016 | 105 min | Arabic | d.s.
He is doubly blind really, young Lebanese musician Rabih. He hasn’t seen the sea since his early youth, but now he is also in the dark about his own future. He happens to find out that his ID card is a forgery. In addition, his birth certificate was apparently lost during the civil war. Rabih’s quest for his identity takes him on a journey past lies and sorrow and traces of the civil war that ravaged Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. His own mother lied to him, and she’s not the only one. What was the role of his Uncle Hisham, who found little Rabih as a baby in a village destroyed by the war? Hopefully his old comrades have an answer.
With his feature debut, Vatche Boulghourjian shows us a classic story about the quest for truth in the midst of a sea of lies, to which he adds ingenious plot twists. A good listener will find answers in the beautiful musical intermezzos.
Place: CINEMA 5
Date: 6 April 2017
Time: 13:30
Duration: 1:20
Place: CINEMA 3
Date: 7 April 2017
Time: 21:45
Duration: 1:30
Year in
Festival
2017
Director
Vatche Boulghourjian
Camera
James Lee Phelan
Cast
Barakat Jabbour
Julia Kassar
Michel Adabachi
Toufic Barakat
Abido Bacha
Odette Makhlouf
Georges Diab
Country
Lebanon
France
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Editor
Language
Arabic
Length
105 min
Music
Cynthia Zaven
Producer
Caroline Oliveira
Georges Schoucair / Abbout Productions
Production Company
Abbout Productions
Production Design
Sales
The Bureau Sales
Scenario
Vatche Boulghourjian
Sound Design
Rana Eid
Year of Production
2016