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Here comes the rain ( Lebanon 2010 )

Color: Fiction, color, 98’

Direction: Bahij Hojeij

Screenplay: Bahij Hojeij

Director of Photography: Maxime Heraud

Sound: Mouhab Chanehsaz

Music: Wissam Hojeij

Editing: Michèle Tyan

Cast: Hassan Mrad-Julia Kassar- Carmen Lebbos

Production: Online films

Synopsis

Kidnapped in 1984 during the war in Lebanon, Ramez reappeared 20 years later. Ramez fifty years, he is very ill, disconnected from reality. His return shakes his family and compromises the projects of his two children and his wife. That’s when he crosses paths with Zeinab awaiting the return of her husband that was kidnapped at the same time. Deep friendship develops between the two...

Réalisateur

Bahij Hojeij studied philosophy and theater in Beirut and cinema in Paris. Since 1990, he teaches cinema at the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut. He began his career in 1980 in television. Then produced and directed several feature films including Beirut the dialogue of ruins, the National Museum, challenge to oblivion, kidnapped Zennar El Nar (Ring of Fire) and Chatti Ya dini (here comes the rain)