Falling From Earth Lebanon / France
2007, 70min.
Prod./Script/Dir.: Chadi Zeineddine, Dir. of Phot.: Jhonny Abi Fares, Compos.: Polérik Rouvière, Edit.: Gladys Joujou
Cast: Ammar Shalak, Rafic Ali Ahmad, Carmen Lebbos
Is it true that we lose the sense of reality when everything sounds like an explosion? Youssef, wise fool, lives in the remains of a building, collecting photographs of happy people. Behind each photograph are millions of implosions of a city wounded by time. Chapter after chapter, they are all still waiting for… Beirut.
Production Companies
Néon Productions
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| Zeneddine, Chadi Chadi Zeneddine (born 1979, Libreville, Gabon)
Chadi Zeneddine belongs to the new generation of directors who haven’t lived the civil war but came back to Beirut to film his point of view and vision of the undying city. He currently lives in France, continuing his PhD in Cinema Studies at the Sorbonne under the supervision of Michel Chion. Falling from Earth is his first feature film. He has received a Masters of Arts in Film and Video studies and a BA in Communication Arts, Chad, later pursuing Cinematography courses at Spirifilm. Chadi Zeneddine works as a director for a series of documentaries.
Filmography
Memories of Places, Out-of-Focus, Colors, La Toupie, Looking for Fellini, When my Dead grandfather died, Falling from Earth (2007).
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