Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked.
Direction
Saab blurs documentary and fiction like Beirut itself.
Cinematography
Ruined architecture framed as both wound and witness.
Director
Jocelyne Saab
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Saab shot during Lebanon's post-civil war reconstruction, capturing a city literally burying its ruins beneath new construction.
The 'found' Lebanese films within the film were largely destroyed during the war—Saab recreated lost history to mourn it.
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