A LOST HEART AND OTHERS DREAMS OF BEIRUT
UN CŒUR PERDU ET AUTRES RÊVES DE BEYROUTH
France | 2023 | 36 min
A film that plays with offscreen space by way of static but restless shots, reflecting surfaces that disclose other, intimate and public, spaces. These offer no hint whatsoever of the 2020 explosion in the port of Beirut, the political and financial chaos, the tumults and despair in which the city plunged in 2019. We are enveloped in the voices of the inhabitants of Beirut, their memories, the sea foam, the sounds of the old town, the car horns, and the music playing everywhere. The ghost of the city’s glory after WWII has survived in the sweetness of its sunsets, the youths taking dives, the cats meowing, the face of a elderly lady smoking, and that of a sexton sighing. Beirut only exists as a dream, in the echoes and shadows, in the dignity, the melancholy, and again in the anger and joy of young people dancing through the night. (l.f.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 08 Nov 2023
- Time: 10:50
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Organizer
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Maya Abdul-Malak
Maya Abdul-Malak is a Franco-Lebanese director. Her first documentary, Au pays qui te ressemble (2010) obtained the Persona Prize and CNC Quality Prize in 2010. Un cœur perdu et autres rêves de Beyrouth (2023) received a special mention at the 45th edition of the festival Cinéma du Réel.
