Year of Production
2017
Country of Production
Lebanon, Germany, Syria, Qatar, UAE
Running Time
1h25
Language
in Arabic with English subtitles
Festivals/Awards

Adelaide Film Festival 2017: Winner Foxtel Movies International Award, Best Documentary, Ziad Kalthoum; Camden International Film Festival 2017: Winner, Harrell Award, Best Documentary Feature; Nyon Visions du Réel 2017: Winner Grand Prix, International Feature Film Competition, Ziad Kalthoum

Format
DCP
Taste of Cement
طعم الإسمنت
Ziad Kalthoum

In Beirut, Syrian construction workers are building a skyscraper while at the same time their own houses at home are being shelled. The Lebanese war is over but the Syrian one still rages on. The workers are locked in the building site. They are not allowed to leave it after 7p.m. The Lebanese government has imposed night-time curfews on the refugees. The only contact with the outside world for these Syrian workers is the hole through which they climb out in the morning to begin a new day of work. Cut off from their homeland, they gather at night around a small TV set to get the news from Syria. Tormented by anguish and anxiety, while suffering the deprivation of the most basic human and workers right, they keep hoping for a different life.

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