Beirut, Lebanon
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Request a demoBorn in Lebanon, Cynthia Choucair graduated from ALBA in 1998 and obtained a master degree in Film Directing from Iesav-USJ in 2002. She directed 9 fiction and documentary films of different lengths. Her short film The Chair was selected in more than 35 festivals worldwide and won several prizes. In 2007, she established her production house, Road2films, producing documentaries, fiction films and cultural TV programs. She produced and co-produced documentaries that competed in prestigious international film festivals like the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Sheffield DocFest, RIDM, FidMarseille and many others. Cynthia teaches documentary filmmaking at ALBA University and she is a member of the Lebanese Cultural Association Beirut DC.
When a troupe of clowns arrives on the Greek island of Lesvos to welcome the incoming refugees, they find themselves greeted with closed gates. Cynthia, the sister of Sabine, one of the clowns, joins them on their journey, which slowly becomes a reflection on the sisters’ own tale of displacement during the Lebanese civil war.
POWERLESS examines Lebanon’s electricity crisis through personalized investigations of individuals, whose lives were drastically affected by the continuous and ever ongoing power shortage in their country.
Being away for a decade, Farah (31) returns to her hometown Tripoli in Lebanon to only see her city getting increasingly conservative. But there is a secret refuge: her father’s Mustapha’s (83) weekly all-male classical Arabic poetry club.
Produced for AJ+ Arabic
Produced for AJ+ Arabic
Produced for AJ+ Arabic
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