(LA MER ET SES VAGUES)
THE SEA AND ITS WAVES
Drama | Running Time: 83 minutes
2023 / Arabic
Country: France and Lebanon
MENA Premiere
Liana grew up in Beirut, Renaud in the French countryside. Educated in film during the 2000s through their respective video clubs, they met in Paris in 2007. At the end of their studies, they bought a Super 16mm camera, moved to Beirut and started writing and directing short films. Known simply as Liana Renaud, they live between France and Lebanon
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VOX Cinema 5 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
VOX Cinema 6 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
ProducerMathieu Mullier-Griffiths
CastRoger Assaf, Hanane Hajj Ali, Mays Mostafa, Muhammad Ammari
ScriptwriterLiana , Renaud
A passionate ode to Beirut - that troubled but still mesmerising city - this story of a night spent on the docks, where brother and sister Mansour and Najwa wait anxiously for a boat to take them away to Norway, is like a film poem composed out of darkness. Local characters loom out of the night, each one with a story that reveals another aspect of this wounded culture, but merging into a narrative that is both observational and surreal, heightened by unexpected musical flourishes, pools of light that suddenly illuminate the city’s skyscrapers and people whose woes are never fully explained. In their debut drama, Liana and Renaud have reached for a new cinematic language to illuminate the city’s profound trauma.