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During the 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon, Marwan gets stuck in the basement of a house with four villagers. On the floor above them is a group of Israeli soldiers.
In a small village in the south of Lebanon, during the last days of the July War, five people try to escape the bombing: a young woman with her older husband; two old men; and Marwan, a young man recently arrived from Beirut who is looking for his father. They decide to hide in the basement of a house that has not yet been destroyed but after they do, Israeli soldiers enter the first floor. They are trapped in their location and by their own fears, and the situation soon spirals out of control.

Credits

Director
Ahmad Ghossein
Screenwriter
Ahmad Ghossein
Producer
Georges Schoucair

About the Director

Ahmad Ghossein
Ahmad Ghossein is a filmmaker and video artist who graduated with a BA in theatre arts from the Lebanese University. He won the Best Director award at the Beirut International Film Festival in 2004 for his short film ‘Operation N’. He has since directed several documentaries and videos, including ‘My Father Is Still a Communist’ (2011) commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation; ‘210m’ (2007), com

Producers

Georges Schoucair

Founder and CEO of Abbout Productions, Georges Schoucair developed and produced critically acclaimed and award-winning independent movies and has actively contributed to the establishment of an attractive and globally acknowledged environment for film investments in Lebanon and the development of the Lebanese cinema, one of the most promising cinemas in the Middle East today. In parallel to Abbout Productions, Georges co-founded MC Distribution, which releases independent films in the Middle East and North Africa, and since 2008 is the vice-president of Metropolis, the only art-house cinema in Beirut. In 2019, Georges was invited as a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in the Executive branch, from the Middle East.