Direction
Janssen lets Beirut's citizens become the chorus, not subjects.
Sound
Fairuz's voice becomes the film's entire architecture.
Director
Jack Janssen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fairuz is Lebanon's most celebrated singer, her voice so sacred that political factions across the civil war declared temporary ceasefires when her songs played on the radio.
The film's refusal to show Fairuz performing — only her listeners — mirrors how diaspora communities experience her: as presence through absence, voice without body.
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