The One Man Village: Semaan Bil Day'ia

Name: The One Man Village: Semaan Bil Day'ia
Brand: mec film
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By Simon El Habre

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Exceptional clarity in the filmic storytelling of a simple man in the Lebanese highlands, told with great empathy and even more skill. This film is an enchanting and gripping film and at once a pleasant and powerful experience. Semaan is leading a quiet life on his farm in the small village of Ain al-Halazoun in the Lebanese mountains. The hamlet was completely emptied and destroyed in combats during the civil war in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. Today, many years after an official reconciliation, its inhabitants, who are all from one family, regularly go back to the village to cultivate their plots of land or visit their houses and always leave before sunset.In his comforting and humorous film Simon El Habre observes the life in his quasi ghost village and tries to reflect on the collective and individual memory in a country that seems to live in a collective amnesia and is vulnerable to a new civil war. (Subtitled in English, French, German, Serbian, Spanish and Italian)

Product details

Release Date:: 2007
Number of Discs:: 1
Publication Date:: 2010-07-26
Publisher:: mec film
Languages:: Published: Arabic, Published: English, Published: French, Published: German, Original: Arabic

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