Manal Khader

Es, un Palestinien vivant à Jérusalem, est amoureux d'une Palestinienne de Ramallah. L'homme est partagé entre son amour et la nécessité de s'occuper de son père, très fragile. En raison de la situation politique, la femme ne peut aller plus loin que le checkpoint situé entre les deux villes. Les rendez-vous du couple ont donc lieu dans un parking désert près du checkpoint.

Beyrouth, de nos jours. Trois femmes, qui ne se connaissent pas, prennent le même bus pour aller à la prison des hommes, dans l’arrière-pays libanais. Au milieu de cette terre aride, elles vont être, à travers ce voyage, confrontées bien malgré elles à la quête de leur propre indépendance.

When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow me to write about love.” In TWO TRAVELERS TO A RIVER Palestinian actress Manal Khader recites such a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: a concise reflection on how things could have been.

In an apartment building in Beirut, on the last day of the year, seven characters start their day by visiting their psychologist as part of the weekly ritual. On that couch in their psychologist's office, they face themselves and their loved ones in trying to define what is most important to them. Each of them, from the patients to the residents of the building, has a different story to share, inner secrets and hidden wishes. All keep to themselves, except for the porter Abou Karim, who extends his presence and allows himself to interfere in the lives of others and in their destinies.