Musings on the Mediterranean Sea, its colours, its smallest inhabitants, the plastic on its shores, and its large turtles—sometimes mythical—returning yearly from a twenty-year voyage to Lebanese shores under the spell of a tune.
‘B.A.H.R Alphabet’ is at once an elegy and an ode to the sea; this film is about time and interrupted rituals. It is also about the many shades of blue, and the plastic shapes that imitate seashells, the sea turtles on Lebanese shores and the individuals who care for them. It follows the waiting through winter seasons for summer to bring back a female sea turtle, possibly a mythical one, to the shore of her birth, where she hatched twenty years earlier, and the sixty further days until the hatchlings run by the hundreds into the crashing waves.
