lenght 2 min.
year 2024
producer Savage Film
director Angie Obeid
script Angie Obeid

description

In 1980, Mansour, 32, traveled to Belgium with his friends, bought cars and set out on a trip across Europe to return to Lebanon, a country already tired from enduring five years of civil war. . Today, 39 years later, Mansour (70), a retired geo-historian, still lives in Beirut and has never traveled since. It was only when her daughter Angie (30) went to study in Europe that memories of the most adventurous period of her life were revived. Angie invites her father to Brussels to look for a new car and make the same trip as him. But the path taken by Mansour is no longer the same. Over the 4,000 kilometers he traveled, countries disappeared and others were born. Borders have been erased and others have appeared. Dictatorships have risen and fallen. Wars have died out and others have broken out, causing death, destruction and immense displacement. And Lebanon, caught between the sea and two wars, is no longer accessible by land. In the enclosed space of a car, the journey of rediscovery of the distance between Europe and Lebanon becomes an intimate discovery of the new father/daughter relationship beyond the boundaries of their typical family context.

Sami Abou louh

sound design

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