About the Author
Matthieu Kairouz is a young Franco-Lebanese director and photographer. After studying African History at the Sorbonne, which led him to live in the West and East of the African continent, as well as a year of training in documentary film at the DEMC of Paris VII, he decided to devote himself to documentary filmmaking.Dekken is his first feature documentary project in direct cinema. A film, which through Ahmad and his shop, could be a reflection of today's Bcharré, a village located in the high mountains of northern Lebanon.
Developed Projects
Since leaving Syria 8 years ago, Ahmad has run a small shop in the high mountains of northern Lebanon, in Bsharri, my village. This place has multiple facets. It turns out to be a point of gravity on the village square and proves to be a “crossroads” for the inhabitants, an enclosed place which nevertheless opens to the outside.
From Script to Screen