One year after the explosion that rocked Beirut, four women living in the same house navigate a destroyed city and their own upended lives.

UPDATES:

• 2025 Breaking Through The Lens ACTION GRANT - SHORTLIST

  Read the announcement here.
  

• Recipient of the OIF (Fonds Image de la Francophonie ) production fund 2024 
  Read the announcement here. 

• Recipient of the Belgium production fund 2023 (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles)​

• Recipient of the TIFF Every Story People’s Fellowship 2022
  read interview here

• TIFF Filmmaker Lab Participant 2022

• Selected to the 2023 NYU Purple list.
  Read the exclusive announcement in The Hollywood Reporter here.

• Selected to the Production Lab Slate
  Read the announcement here. ​

• Shortlisted for the WScripted Cannes Screenplay Competition

A mother who is awaiting the return of her daughter spends the day smoking and tormenting the household staff so as not to face her pain.

2021

WATCH on The New Yorker: here.

WATCH on Short of the Week: here

PRODUCED BY Diane DACCACHE, Oriana NG

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY Melanie AKOKA​

STARRING

Julia KASSAR, Nawal KAMEL, ​Mohammad AKIL, Pierre DAGHER, Marie-Lou NAHHAS, Camille MALLAT

​FORMAT 16mm Film

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

- The Black Family Film Prize (via NYU)
- Fondation Saradar
- Cedrona

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)​

Aspen ShortFest Film Festival

HollyShorts Film Festival - Shot on film honorable mention​

Beirut International Women Film Festival​

Roma Short Film Festival - Best Student film, best Actress​

WorldFest Houston International Film Festival

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY

Denis Garnier

STARRING

Pierre Hancisse, Lya Oussadit-Lessert, Jacques Weber

INDIGOGO CAMPAIGN

I created an Indigogo campaign to help fund the post-production (because I went way over budget and ran out of money.) Click here to see a short preview of the film, and read more about the cast and crew.