Ali Cherri

5.8

Chambre 999

Oct 05, 2023

Chambre 999

2023 85 min 5 vues

Le cinéma est-il un langage en train de se perdre, un art qui va mourir ? » : Wim Wenders posait cette question à seize de ses confrères réalisateurs dans CHAMBRE 666 en 1982. Quarante ans plus tard, Lubna Playoust utilise le même dispositif et pose la question à 30 cinéastes contemporains présents à Cannes cette année-là.

Documentary

7.5

Cendres

Aug 01, 2003

Cendres

2003 26 min 1 vues

Nabil revient de l’étranger avec une urne renfermant les cendres de son père. Ce dernier, contre la tradition, a demandé à être incinéré, et a voulu que ses cendres soient dispersées dans la mer, à Beyrouth. Il est écartelé par la promesse faite à son père et la pression de sa famille qui souhaite respecter le rituel funéraire de la communauté. Il est convenu, pour sauver les apparences, d’organiser un simulacre d’enterrement, en remplaçant le corps absent…

1

L'étoile bleue

Apr 17, 2020

L'étoile bleue

2020 18 min 1 vues

It all happened on a dark night. The Man was tired of being a stranger, tired of being insulted by others simply because he speaks Arabic to a wife who speaks French with their beloved mixed race son. He looked at the sky and shouted. But that night, far in the cosmos, a voice answered.

6.3

Le Barrage

Mar 01, 2023

Le Barrage

2023 84 min 7 vues

Drama

1

Gazing at the Catastrophe

Jan 01, 2013

Gazing at the Catastrophe

2013 5 min 1 vues

In Gazing at the Catastrophe, Ali Cherri reflects on how suffering has become increasingly integrated into his daily life. Witnessing of atrocities, Cherri argues, seems to be an inevitable condition of modernity. The knowledge of war gained by those who have not experienced it firsthand is informed exclusively by mediated images found on the internet or in the media.

1

L'intranquille

Sep 09, 2013

L'intranquille

2013 20 min 1 vues

Earth-shattering events are relatively par for the course in Lebanon, with war, political upheaval and a number of social revolts. While the Lebanese focus on surface level events that could rock the nation, few realize that below the ground we walk on, an actual shattering of the earth is mounting. Lebanon stands on several major fault lines, which are cracks in the earth's crust. The film investigates the geological situation in Lebanon, trying to look for the traces of the imminent disaster.

Documentary

1

L'intranquille

Sep 09, 2013

L'intranquille

2013 20 min 1 vues

Earth-shattering events are relatively par for the course in Lebanon, with war, political upheaval and a number of social revolts. While the Lebanese focus on surface level events that could rock the nation, few realize that below the ground we walk on, an actual shattering of the earth is mounting. Lebanon stands on several major fault lines, which are cracks in the earth's crust. The film investigates the geological situation in Lebanon, trying to look for the traces of the imminent disaster.

Documentary

6.3

Le Barrage

Mar 01, 2023

Le Barrage

2023 84 min 7 vues

Earth-shattering events are relatively par for the course in Lebanon, with war, political upheaval and a number of social revolts. While the Lebanese focus on surface level events that could rock the nation, few realize that below the ground we walk on, an actual shattering of the earth is mounting. Lebanon stands on several major fault lines, which are cracks in the earth's crust. The film investigates the geological situation in Lebanon, trying to look for the traces of the imminent disaster.

Drama

7.2

Nöbetçi

Jan 25, 2024

Nöbetçi

2024 26 min 2 vues

Halil spends his nights in a watchtower waiting for an enemy that doesn’t arrive, until suddenly strange lights appear on the horizon. Ali Cherri creates a universe in which a suspended and void time opens the door to ghostly presences from a past made of war. Shot with an extreme and detailed precision of vision and sound, The Watchman is an urgent film that deconstructs the myth of duty, laying bare the absurdity of the omnipresent war rhetoric.

Drama

7.2

Nöbetçi

Jan 25, 2024

Nöbetçi

2024 26 min 2 vues

Halil spends his nights in a watchtower waiting for an enemy that doesn’t arrive, until suddenly strange lights appear on the horizon. Ali Cherri creates a universe in which a suspended and void time opens the door to ghostly presences from a past made of war. Shot with an extreme and detailed precision of vision and sound, The Watchman is an urgent film that deconstructs the myth of duty, laying bare the absurdity of the omnipresent war rhetoric.

Drama

5

Al haffar

Nov 10, 2015

Al haffar

2015 24 min 4 vues

In the Sharjah desert, Sultan Zeib Khan makes the rounds of the ruins of a Neolithic necropolis where the foundations of the nation are kept. Amid the tombs, the vastness of the desert is palpable. Time plays no role in the ritual that Zeib Khan has performed daily for the past 20 years.

1

Of Men and Gods and Mud

Apr 23, 2022

Of Men and Gods and Mud

2022 18 min 1 vues

Ali Cherri’s Of Men and Gods and Mud follows a group of brickmakers as they produce building materials from mud at a factory in northern Sudan. The factory is located near the massive Merowe Dam, which is one of the largest hydroelectric projects in Africa. Although it brought much-needed electricity to the region, its construction devastated ecosystems and displaced more than 50,000 people, leading to civil unrest. Cherri’s video is narrated with excerpts from his Book of Mud, read in English and Arabic.

Documentary

1

Un Cercle Autour du Soleil

Jan 01, 2005

Un Cercle Autour du Soleil

2005 15 min 1 vues

In a cyclical structure from dark to light, this film is a reflection on growing up in Beirut during the civil war years and adapting to the "post war" life: accepting the body that is in ruin, and learning to live in the city that is always already in ruin.

1

Pipe Dreams

Jan 01, 2011

Pipe Dreams

2011 7 min 1 vues

Between dreamscapes and reality, this video is a journey in three chapters, on the backdrop of the uprising in the Arab world. A Rise, a Decline, and a Fall that would create a tabula rasa and a new start. "Sometimes dreams have to hurt before they become a reality"

1

Somniculus

Feb 14, 2017

Somniculus

2017 15 min 1 vues

Filmed inside a series of empty museum galleries across Paris, Somniculus (the Latin word for “light sleep”) articulates the tension between the lives of dead objects and the living world that surrounds them. Artefacts from museums of ethnography, archaeology and natural sciences are all presented in their existing cultural context as the surviving objects of human interest.

1

بلا عنوان (إلى المواطنين اللبنانيين)

Jul 21, 2006

بلا عنوان (إلى المواطنين اللبنانيين)

2006 3 min 1 vues

During the July War of 2006, as warships evacuated foreigners and dual-nationality Lebanese, the “State of Israel” intercepted the broadcast of The Voice of the People radio station to deliver an audio message to Lebanese citizens. Israel interrupts the broadcast of "Sawt Al-Sha'eb," as Fairuz finishes performing Talal Haidar's poem "Wahdun" (They Alone) and starts singing another verse in which she declares her eternal love for Lebanon. Meanwhile, ships are evacuating those fleeing the flames of war—three enormous contradictions. Coincidence can carry so much meaning.

Documentary