Under the Bombs

  • Sous les bombes (Taht el Qasef)
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title : Taht El Qasef
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2007
Format : Feature
Running time : 94 (in minutes)
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Zeina is a Lebanese woman in the middle of a divorce. In order to spare her son, Karim, she sends him to stay with her sister in a little village in the South of Lebanon.

One week later, the war breaks out in Lebanon. Terribly worried, she goes in Lebanon and only one taxi-driver, Toni, agrees to take her. Setting off in the same car, Zeina and Toni are far from sharing the same political views but they drive south together, into a landscape once again devastated by bombs.

Most of the bridges have been bombed and the taxi is forced to take back roads. When they finally reach the house of Zeina's sister, they realize they are too late: it has been hit, and only a pile of rubble remains. Zeina's sister is dead. Ali, a kid from the village, comes forward to tell them that her son Karim is OK.

But when Tony and Zeina finally arrive, exhausted, they realise that Ali, the kid from Kherbet Selem, has made a terrible mistake: he has confused Karim with another boy, Tarek. His face devastated with sorrow, Tony watches as Zeina desperately hugs the child to her as if he were her son, her own flesh and blood.

Genre: Feature film - Drama
Language: Libanese - French / English subtitled
Running Time: 94 min
Writer, Director: Philippe Aractingi
Location: Libanon
Producers: Capa Cinema, Fantascope, Starfield, Art'mell

Cast: Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Rawya El Chab, Bshara Atallah

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