About the Author
Myriam el Hajj was born in 1983 in Beirut. In the continuity of Truce, her first feature documentary, Myriam is now developing her second documentary Suspended(s) with Abbout Productions and Gogogo Films. She is also working on her first feature film, Commedia, produced by Abbout productions and Andolfi production. In addition to her cinematographic activities, Myriam is since 2015, artistic director at the Fondation Liban Cinéma, an association for the support of Lebanese cinema. She has been teaching cinema at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts since 2011.
Developed Projects
Weapons, ballot boxes or the street. Georges, Joumana, Perla. Three intersecting destinies, three generations and the same desire to change a sick country: Lebanon. As crises inexorably follow one another, they find themselves faced with a dilemma: save the world or save their own skin?
Following Makram's arrest for trafficking in explosives, Nour, his 30-year-old daughter, returns from Paris to Beirut. Her quest to understand what happened with her father and free him begins: Nour will have to confront the corruption of politicians first, her family which is tearing itself apart, and a city that she no longer recognizes. A journey to meet Lebanon.
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