Year of Production
2021
Country of Production
Lebanon, Qatar, USA
Running Time
64 min
Festivals/Awards

IDFA 2021 Award for Best Film in the Envision Competition

 

Octopus
أخطبوط
Karim Kassem

Octopus surfaced during trauma, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic Port of Beirut explosion. The film silently navigates that unfolding, giving space to the myriad of existential questions birthed by the enormity of the happening. Questions of unexamined worldviews, of suffering and meaning, of collective purpose, and of many other quiet thoughts strewn amidst the rubble. What are we saying when we say nothing at all?

 

فيلم اخطبوط أو Octopus للمخرج اللبناني كريم قاسم، يظهر آثار انفجار مرفأ بيروت باستخدام نهج صامت لان الصمت احيانا يكون أقوى من الكلام.

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