Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.
Direction
Kammoun captures Beirut's nocturnal pulse with vérité intimacy.
Acting
Elie Mitri's Toufic radiates desperate charm through every humiliation.
Director
Michel Kammoun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Lebanon's 2006 political crisis, the film channels real economic anxiety through Toufic's precarious middle-class existence.
Michel Kammoun's feature debut won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, putting Lebanese indie cinema on the map.
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