IN THE BATTLEFIELDS: THE CINEMA OF DANIELLE ARBID
Friday, December 25th, La Compagnia, 6:30 pm
IN THE BATTLEFIELDS: THE CINEMA OF DANIELLE ARBID
Raddem
by Danielle Arbid (France, Lebanon, 1998, 17’)
In 1996, a young woman of Lebanese origin returns to Beirut after years of absence, feeling like a foreigner. She’s looking for the photographer who took a picture of her house before it was reduced to ruins during the war. She will find out that Samir, the photographer, is not there either, he left too. And the building that once was the family home is about to disappear, razed to the ground by bulldozers.
Seule avec la guerre
by Danielle Arbid (France, Lebanon, 2000, 59’)
After a sixteen-year-long civil war officially ended in 1991, Lebanon tries to get back to a very difficult fresh start. However, behind an apparent calm lie the traumas of conflict and the guilt of a whole nation. Danielle Arbid returns to Beirut: her camera captures the fear of war, the ghost of an unpunished enemy, and the burden of a past whose memory and wounds are still too fresh to be forgotten. Despite a memorial is still lacking in the city, the scars of war are deeply felt in the collective spirit.