Merely a Smell
Film · 10 min · Arabic · 2007
Directed by Maher Abi Samra
In four long takes, like a haiku in black and white, we enter the rubble of a country following the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese conflict. Without ever looking death in the face, the absence of life shows itself over the course of clues appearing in the no man’s land of a battered Beirut. In silent, froze…
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- Les Films d'Ici
- Country of origin
- Saudi Arabia
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- 2026-09-27
- Registry ID
- MRR-2007-FLM-903412
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