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Strange and life‑threatening events at a construction site spark tension between Syrian workers and Lebanese villagers, prompting Tarek, one of the workers, to become convinced the site is haunted.
Tarek, a young Syrian deserter, seeks refuge in Lebanon with the hope of eventually making his way to Europe. He finds work at a construction site in a forest near a Lebanese village, but tensions quickly rise between the Syrian

workers and the local villagers, whose hostility is rooted in painful memories of the Syrian military occupation of Lebanon in the 1990s.

As strange and life-threatening events begin occurring inside an old building the workers are renovating, Tarek starts experiencing visions of a mysterious woman lurking in the forest whom he suspects is the ghost of a Lebanese woman murdered by a Syrian soldier during the occupation.

Credits

Director
Nadim Tabet
Screenwriter
Nadim Tabet, Antoine Waked
Producer
Georges Schoucair

About the Director

Nadim Tabet
Nadim Tabet is a Lebanese director who studied history, philosophy, and cinema at Sorbonne University while making short films that screened internationally. In 2001, he co-founded the Lebanese Film Festival, held biannually in Beirut, and worked as a film programmer for several European festivals, including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and Côté Court Pantin. In 2017, his first
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