Under the bombs
Philippe Aractingi



VENICE DAYS 2007

SUNDANCE 2008 – WORLD DRAMATIC COMPETITION


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Under the bombs
Under the bombs
France/Lebanon/UK/Belgium
2007
98min
Drama

www.underthebombs.com

 

« The docu-fiction road movie plays like a cri de coeur. Shot during the fighting, apparently without a script, these improvised scenes score with their emotional authenticity.” VARIETY

synopsis

Zeina lives in Dubai. In the midst of a divorce, she sends her son Karim to stay with her sister in Kherbet Selem, a small village, South of Lebanon, to spare him from his parents’ fighting.

A few days later war breaks out in Lebanon.

Desperately worried, Zeina immediately heads to Lebanon via Turkey. Because of the blockade she doesn’t reach the port of Beirut until the day of the ceasefire. There she meets Tony, the only taxi-driver who agrees to take her to the South…


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