Faek Homaissi

Each morning Beirut awakens to a new murder seemingly committed by a serial killer, with victims found emptied of their blood. At the same time a doctor, Khalil, begins to experience strange symptoms that destabilise him and transform his life. A connection slowly emerges that seems to link Khalil to these victims. Salhab’s body of films have come to narrate the state of Lebanon – and Beirut in particular – during and after the civil war, and this film is no exception.

Au Liban, Après la bataille de Kfar Chouba, en janvier 1975, Larbi Nasri, un jeune journaliste algérien, est pris dans le tourbillon des évènements qui précèdent la guerre civile. Lié à Maha, Hind, Raouf et Michel qui entourent Nahla, il assiste à la construction du mythe de Nahla, une chanteuse adulée par la population arabe. Un jour Nahla perd sa voix sur scène. L’atmosphère de crise qui règne autour d’elle, gagne comme une infection. Larbi, fasciné, perd pied et s’enlise.

Aging couple Bahiya and Mahmoud have fallen into a reliable routine of bickering and making one another miserable until the morning that Mahmoud wakes and finds Bahiya gone.

Hanna, a melancholic woman, comes to Lebanon after 12 years absence. She wants to find her twin brother who has been kidnapped during the Lebanese civil war.