Director Tina Gharavi follows up her adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Night & Day with Shadows of Beirut. Co-written with Tala Calil, the film also stars Calil in a story based on her own experiences. Calil plays a woman who returns to Beirut for the first time in 25 years to see her estranged dying father. In doing so she reconnects with her homeland.
Assaad Bouab and Flavia Bechara also star.
Shadows of Beirut is in UK/ROI cinemas from September 25th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
After 25 years away, a young woman returns to Beirut to visit her dying father, a man she has not seen since childhood. Forced to confront a past she has spent decades avoiding, she finds herself navigating a complicated landscape of grief, resentment and unanswered questions.As she moves through the city she once called home, Beirut becomes both a source of comfort and a challenge. Encounters with old acquaintances and new connections gradually draw her back into a world she believed she had left behind. At the same time, she struggles with the emotional burdens and anxieties that have shaped her life, making her journey home as much an internal one as a physical return.Through the people she meets and the memories that resurface, she begins to piece together a deeper understanding of her family, her history and herself. Set against the vibrant and resilient backdrop of Beirut, Shadows of Beirut is an intimate and moving drama about reconciliation, identity and the enduring pull of home.
