Directed by Dima El-Horr
A stunning first scene immediately establishes the highly charged atmosphere in Dima El-Horr’s carefully controlled first feature, filled with absurd moments and symbolic gestures. Three women (Hiam Abbass, Manal Khader, Raïa Haïdar) with very different motives board a bus on the Lebanese Day of Liberation to visit their husbands in jail. When the bus is stopped short by a stray bullet, the women are left to find their own way in the hot sun through mountains full of mines, amid sounds of muffled explosions, throngs of refugees, and rumors of massacres. Their perilous journey becomes an internal one towards liberation, as individual life and collective memory blend, and the personal and political are blurred.
2009. France/Germany/Lebanon. 87 min.
SCREENING WITH
Felicità – directed by Salomé Aleksi
A Georgian woman working in Italy finds a very modern way to uphold a custom from her old homeland, in this microcosm of relations in the global economy. 2009. Georgia. 30 min.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Dima El-Horr earned an MFA in filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she currently teaches cinema at the Lebanese American University in Lebanon. She has directed three short films, which have been presented in numerous festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Hong Kong, and Brest. Every Day Is a Holiday is her first full-length feature.
