Franco Film Festival – Lebanese Short Movies

A Broken Fan
Assaad Khoueiry, 2021
13min
Subtitled in French

Synopsis
Adel, a desperate jobless father gets out on the streets of Beirut hoping for a change.

Somewhere In Between
Dahlia Nemlich, 2023
15min
Subtitled in French

Synopsis
After sixty years of marriage, Elias and Christiane live together without actually living with each other. Elias’s illness has forced him into a solitary world, while Christiane’s obligations, responsibilities, and routines lock her in a lonely world of her own. Their love resides in their shared memories. As they delve into those stories from the past, they prepare for a final farewell with an attempt to reconnect one last time. They will find themselves in a world where time stands still, where the atmosphere is warm and the music from their first encounter resounds about them.

Et si le soleil se plongeait
dans l’ocean des nues
Wissam Charaf, 2020
20min
Subtitled in French

Synopsis
In Lebanon, Raed, a security guard on the seafront construction site, has to prevent walkers from accessing the seafront. But as the horizon becomes more and more blocked by the construction site, Raed encounters singular people. Dreams or embodiments of his desires?

The Trees
Ramzi Bashour, 2021
23min
Subtitled in French

Synopsis
Bashir attends his father’s funeral in rural Lebanon only to discover a pathogen infecting the trees across his village. A dark-comedy about tradition, grief, and the environment.