The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ritman spoke to Jimmy Keyrouz, director of Broken Keys, and the film’s composer, Gabriel Yared, for a THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media.
During the half-hour chat, the pair described how an Oscar-winning student short film morphed into a full-length feature — a Cannes 2020 selection and now Lebanon’s submission to the Academy Awards' international feature category —and attracted an Oscar-winning composer along the way.
Set in an unnamed town in war-torn Iraq and Syria under the brutal control of the Islamic State in 2014, Broken Keys follows Karim, a talented musician who literally risks his life in order to repair a piano that is partially destroyed by ISIS soldiers.
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