Year of Production
2018
Country of Production
Lebanon
Running Time
1h27
Language
In Arabic with English subtitles
Counting Tiles
بمشي وبعدّ
Cynthia Choucair

ترافق المخرجة سينتيا أختها سابين ورفاقها المهرجين في رحلتهم الثانية إلى جزيرة ليسبوس اليونانية، لملاقاة وفود اللاجئين واستقبالهم بوجوه ضاحكة. غير أن هذه المرة، يواجه المهرجون ببوابات مغلقة لتتحوّل الرحلة إلى مسار داخلي وانعكاس لحكاياتهم ولقصص الأختين عن التهجير والترحال.

 

In February 2016, a group of clowns travel to the Greek island of Lesvos on a mission to bring laughter to the transient waves of people escaping war. Unwittingly, they instead bear witness to the effects of new policies enacted by the European Union, which aim to restrict the refugee influx and with it the intended efforts of individual volunteers. Cynthia, being the narrator and the sister of one of the clowns Sabine, she questions the implied limits of one’s will to help and through an intimate conversation between, both sisters revisit their own memories of displacement during the Lebanese Civil war: different times; the same waves of terror, the same bitter taste of war.

 

In the presence of the director

Beirut Cinema Days - 10th Edition | أيام بيروت السينمائية - الدورة العاشرة
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