Mounia Akl
Costa Brava, Lebanon (كوستا برافا، لبنان)
Edition 2023
106'
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2021
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Arabic
Director:
Mounia Akl
Composer:
Nathan Larson
With:
Nadine Labaki, Saleh Bakri, Yumna Marwan
Crisis in Lebanon. This time not a film about the explosion in the port, but about the toxic pollution in Beirut. Pollution from which there is no escape, even if you build a paradise outside the city.
The free-spirited Badri family escapes the toxic pollution and social unrest of Beirut by seeking refuge in a utopic mountain home they've devoted years to building for themselves. Without warning, the government begins construction of a garbage landfill right outside their fence, bringing the trash and corruption of a whole country to their doorstep.
“A family’s attempts to escape the filth of Beirut go awry when the garbage follows them to their doorstep. Situated in a dystopian near future indistinguishable from the present, the film’s setting is less a space for imagination than for cynicism: The more things change, the more they stay the same.” - The New York Times
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Credits
Director
Mounia Akl
Composer
Nathan Larson
With
Nadine Labaki, Saleh Bakri, Yumna Marwan
Scenario
Mounia Akl, Clara Roquet
Director of Photography
Joe Saade
Editor
Cyril Aris, Carlos Marques-Marcet
Producer
Tono Folguera, Myriam Sassine, Georges Schoucair
Production studios
Abbout Productions
Distributor
Mooov Distributie
More information
Dialogue
Arabic
Countries of production
Lebanon, Denmark, Qatar, Norway, Spain, France, Sweden
Year
2021
Filmography
Mounia Akl
Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not) (short, 2009), Cheers, to Those Who Stay (short, 2010), Anoesis (short, 2011), Farewell (short, 2011), Christine (short, 2014), Eva (short, 2014), Submarine (short, 2016), Lebanon Factory (2017), Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021)
