Baalbeck
First screened in August 2014
Directors: Ghassan Salhab, Akram Za`atarī, and Mohamad Soueid. Cast: Yvan Khalifeh, Nigol Bezjian, Nabil Kojok. Screenplay: Akram Za`atarī. Twitter Capsule:
Many offhandedly resonant tableaus for such a modestly shot video production. All three inroads lead somewhere surprising.
VOR:④
Some visual and thematic tropes are already familiar from what little Arabic cinema I've seen. Still: questing, clever, agitated ideas about Lebanons past and present, nimbly conveyed.
