Cynthia Choucair

We Are Inside

After a fifteen-year absence, Farah returns to Lebanon to live with her ageing father. There, the two try to find a common language that will allow them to have one last conversation. Ultimately, that language will turn out to be the only one he understands: poetry. As the sounds of revolution echo outside, Farah Kassem creates a deeply moving work, an intimate yet open portrait of her country in crisis.

Sea Salt

17-year-old Nayla in a hot summer day on the southern seaside of Lebanon is faced with the same dilemma as any other young person in Lebanon: to leave or to stay. Two men in her life who have set ideas about it might get surprised.

I Come From the Sea

Samar, Jude, Imad are 11-year-old school friends who skip school one day and venture into their city, Tripoli. The encounter between the city and the three kids creates magic at every corner.