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33rd Edition, Sibiu
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33rd Edition, Sibiu
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We Are Inside
Farah Kassem / Liban / 2024 / 180 minute
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We Are Inside
Sometimes, communication is hardest with the people closest to us. After more than a decade, Farah returns to Lebanon and tirelessly searches for a language through which she can connect with her father, at the end of his life — a language that ultimately turns out to be poetry itself.
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Film Details

An intimate dialogue between a daughter and her father, an 83-year-old Lebanese poet at the end of his life. The participatory film raises essential questions about the relevance of art in times of crisis: must poetry be political, or can it retain its power in traditional forms? In attempting to connect with her father through writing, the filmmaker also opens a debate on conservative creation — based on rhyme and strict rules — versus free, prosaic expression. Visually, the documentary alternates between long, sober shots of the father’s apartment and images of the streets of Lebanon seen through windows, creating a subtle parallel between interior and exterior, art and politics, intimacy and collective history.
Director
Farah Kassem
Producer
Cynthia Choucair, Mehdi Bekkar, Patricia Drati, Farah Kassem, Cynthia Choucair
Production House
Editor
Sound
Joelle Abou Chabke
Cinematographer
Tebbe Schöningh
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