A City and a Woman

International Competition for Short Films

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Uma Cidade e Uma Mulher
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Diretor: Nicolas Khoury

On August 4, a large explosion shakes Beirut. All human life disappears. A woman inhabits the city. Shot in the wake of the Beirut-port explosion in 2020, the film starts from a letter that American-Syrian poet Etel Adnan wrote almost three decades earlier, in 1992, after the Lebanon civil war.