Visions du Réel Lebanese Doc ‘We Are Inside’ Debuts Trailer: ‘It’s About Change in My Father, in Me, in My Country’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAnnika Pham Seven years after showcasing “You Make a Better Window Than You Do a Door” at Visions du Réel’s Short Film competition strand, Lebanese-born Farah Kassem is back in Nyon, this time in the main international competition with her doc feature-length debut “We Are Inside.” Variety was granted access to the trailer.
The film was produced by the helmer’s regular collaborator Cynthia Choucair of Lebanon’s Road2Films, in co-production with Qatar’s Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and Denmark’s Good Company Pictures (“Photographer of War,” “Beautiful Something Left Behind”).
The seven-year gap since Kassem started working on “We Are Inside” was a transformative period for her and her native country as she underscored in a statement. “I witnessed, among others things a sense of deterioration and destruction, that will be very difficult to come back from.
We’ve witnessed a revolution, the 4th of August Beirut explosion, the on-going massacres in Gaza and the attacks on Lebanon,” said the filmmaker, now established in Brussels.
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