HEAVEN WITHOUT PEOPLE

Lucien BOURJEILY - Lebanon

Synopsis

For the first time in two years, a family gathers for Easter lunch. The matriarch, Josephine, is happy to receive her children around a table of delicious food she has carefully prepared. While they are eating an incident reveals the underlying tensions in the family and threatens to turn the event into chaos.

Film details

Genre : Future film
Duration : 91 minutes
Year of production : 2017
Country : Lebanon
Casting : Nadim Abou Samra - Jean Paul Hage - Samira Sarkis - Jenny Gebara
Screenwriter : Lucien BOURJEILY
Cinematography : Ahmad AL TRABOLSI
Editor : Lucien BOURJEILY
Director : Lucien BOURJEILY
Production company : Shaer Farah






Lucien Bourjeily was born in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and early on found refuge in writing. He won a Fulbright scholarship and in 2013 completed an MFA at Los Angeles LMU. Heaven Without People is his first feature film.