APRÈS LA GUERRE C’EST TOUJOURS LA GUERRE (Egypte, 2008)


Documentaire - Couleur - 82’
Direction: Samir Abdallah
Sound: Bashar Abu Saifan
Music: Mat2nio
Editing: Farah Fayed
Production: VIDEO DE POCHE, L’YEUX OUVERTS



Synopsis

This travel diary, shot in Lebanon during and after the 33 days’ war of summer 2006, is dedicated to the memory of Joseph Samaha, a Lebanese editorial writer. Travelling to Beirut with an international delegation for solidarity, the director joins his Lebanese journalist friends who are about to launch a new newspaper, Al Akhbar (The News) during the Israeli occupation of the country. After the ceasefire, he goes with them to the South for an enquiry into the cluster bombs that Israel dropped during the last days of the war. «After the war, there is still war...»


THE DIRECTOR

Samir Abdallah, born in 1959 of an Egyptian father and Danish mother, has lived in France from the age of six, where he became a French citizen.
He has directed numerous documentaries.
He is a coordinator for an international network of documentary films and founded “Open Eyes”, which organizes neighborhood workshops.


Contact

L’YEUX OUVERTS
BP 624 – 92006 Nanterre Cedex France
Tél. : + 33 6 80 63 39 65
frontieres@hotmail.com