Synopsis

Three women are riding in the same bus through today's Lebanon for a day's journey towards the same destination: the men's prison. The first woman is visiting her husband, in jail since their wedding day. The second has one single goal in mind: to have her husband, who is serving a long sentence, sign the divorce papers that will finally free her. The third is traveling unwillingly, with fear in her stomach: she is secretly carrying in her bag the weapon her husband, one of the prison guards, forgot at home.An accident throws the journey off track. Lost in the middle of nowhere, the women become prey to their anxieties and obsessions. As the land around them becomes more and more arid, they hear rumors of massacres and throngs of refugees... And yet they go on, pushing further into what eventually turns into an interior journey, where individual life and collective memory blend and blur into one another. Is this a dream, a nightmare, a fantasy or each woman's own reality?Performed by Hiam Abbass (LEMON TREE, THE VISITOR), Manal Khader (DIVINE INTERVENTION) and Raïa Haïdar.

 

Technical Details

Feature Film, 90 min, 35 mm, Colour, 1:1,85
Film Fund: Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, World Cinema Fund, CNC France, EED

Cast

Raia Haidar · Manal Khader · Hyam Abbas · Karim Saleh · Nabil Abou Mrad
Fadi Abi Samta · Siro Faselian · Bilal Atoui · Berge Fasilian

Crew

Producer: Thierry Lenouvel, Hanneke van der Tas, Nicole Gerhards
Director: Dima el-Horr

Writer: Dima el-Horr, Rabih Mroueh
DoP: Dominique Gentil

Sound: Emmanuel Zouki

Production Designer: Maia Tabet

Costume Designer: Rana Jamal

Make-up Artist: Joanda Abi Frem

VFX: rise fx GmbH

 

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