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Welcome to Beirut
2005 -
45' -
French - Arabic, English subtitles |
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Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Editor : Maria Gamboa, Catherine Quesemand
Sound Mixing : Romain Frydman
Colour correction : Emmanuel Vincent / Franck Chafei
Production : Et Alors Productions |
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Welcome to Beirut is about daily life: driving in the city, going to the hairdresser, discussions with the grocer, visiting a motor show, a wax museum, dining out... It is a driven promenade inside the city with a few open windows through which to peep in. More ironic than sarcastic, the film reveals the state of mind of a certain Lebanese society, a direct consequence of the atlas syndrome: When one opens a European atlas of the world, Lebanon is in the middle but also in the crack, central yet invisible. |
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Moving Out
2004 -
20' -
French, English subtitles |
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Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Editing : Tina Baz
Sound Mixing : Vincent Bordelais, Romain Frydman
Colour correction : Franck Chafei
Production : Et Alors Productions |
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The film portrays the separation of a family. The mother and two children move out of a house while the father stays on, alone. The action takes place over two days, the time for the house to be emptied of its furniture. There is no reference to a happy past, the tension rises from the mere packing of the objects. |
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Lettres à Francine
2002 -
43' -
French, English subtitles |
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Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Images and Photography : Fouad Elkoury
Editors : Tina Baz, Emmanuel Barrault, Pascal Cuissot
Sound Mixing : Eric Rey (UMT)
Image Editing : Emmanuel Vincent
Production : Et Alors Productions & Maison Europeenne de la Photo |
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The film is based on photographs taken during a two-year stay in Turkey and a sound-track relating the trip within the country. Interwoven with this narrative are images and conversations portraying the author’s illness, which was diagnosed upon his return. This is an intimate film that plays with the layering of sounds and images. |
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The wandering myth
2001 -
15’ -
English, French subtitles |
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Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Editing : Fouad Elkoury, Carolina Furque
Featuring: Robert Frank, June Leaf, Peter and Susan Mc Gill, Catherine Coleman, Dominique Eddé, Dina Haidar, Paolo Roversi, Albano, Alberto and Maria Luisa, Kazuko |
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This video features the opening of an exhibition by Robert Frank in Madrid. It was shot in one day in June 2001, without the intention of making a film, but rather of recalling a moment. It shows Robert Frank at a cocktail party given at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and later, with his friends having dinner. |
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Jours tranquilles en Palestine
1998 -
13’ -
French, English subtitles |
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Author : Fouad Elkoury
Director : Sylvain Roumette
Editor : Michèle Loncol
Sound engineer : Laurent Malan
Banc Titre : Jean-Noel Delamarre
Images : Fondation arabe pour l'Image
Production : On Line
With the voices of : Leila Shahid, Jumana Husseini, Lena Saleh, Aida Shehade, Nabila Nashashibi |
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Of Palestine, we know the violence and the suffering. This film tells another story : the story of a pre-Israeli society happily living on its land. Using old photographs found by the Arab Image Foundation and the voice of 5 women who were born in Palestine before 1948, the film recalls ordinary moments of life. |
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