Horizons of Arab Cinema · 44th Edition
Mother Valley
LA NUIT DU VERRE D'EAU
Director
Carlos Chahine
Country
France, Lebanon
Runtime
1 h 25 min
Language
Arabic, French
Premiere
World Premiere
Synopsis
Lebanon, 1958. Layla, a young mother and model wife, spends the summer in a remote village while a civil war rages. She has an eye opening encounter with a French guy.
Cast
Marilyne Naaman, Antoine Merheb Harb, Nathalie Baye, Pierre Rochefort
Screenplay
Carlos Chahine
Producers
Hannah Taïeb, Chantal Fischer, Sabine Sidawi
About the Director
Born in Lebanon, he left for France where he enlisted in the ENSAD and the National Theater of Strasbourg. He has worked under the direction of prestigious directors such as Matthias Langhoff. He came back to Lebanon after an encounter with the director Ghassan Salhab. In 2008 he wrote, directed and acted in THE NORTH ROAD, his first short film.
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