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‘Underdown’ is the pulsating journey of three unbreakable characters struggling to live below the poverty line in the chaos of Beirut.
Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, ‘Underdown’ follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driver who lives in his car, a homeless Syrian kid, and a Lebanese woman and her family. Through a pulsating journey full of harsh realities and an unbreakable sense of humour, the film’s subjects convey glimmers of hope in the darkest of places.

Credits

Director
Sarah Kaskas
Producer
Liliane Rahal, Ines Meier

About the Director

Sarah Kaskas
Sarah Kaskas received her MFA in Cinematic Arts in 2011. Her thesis film, ‘Fugue’ (2011), toured to several festivals before being sold to BBC Arabic’s ‘Alternative Cinema’. In 2013, her animated short film ‘Wanderland’ won an award at the Co-Production Forum at the Stuttgart International Animation Festival, and was nominated for the Robert Bosch Film Prize in 2014. In 2016, Kaskas co-directed ‘B
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