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AND THE FISH FLY ABOVE OUR HEADS (WAL ASMAK TATIR FAWKA ROU’OUSSINA)

Dima El-Horr

France, Lebanon, Saoudi Arabia

Director's Biography

Dima El-Horr’s work explores identity as a shifting construct, tracing how histories of war inscribe themselves onto bodies and shape collective memory. Her films, which have wone numerous awards, have been screened at numerous major international festivals, museums, and other institutions. El-Horr holds a PhD in film studies from Paris-East Créteil University and is the author of Mélancolie libanaise, le cinéma après la guerre civile. Her most recent documentary, And the Fish Fly Above Our Heads, had its premiere at Visions du réel and received the Zonta Award.

2025
69
Arabic
Documentary
Screenings :
Mon 01 / 17:00 / Musée Yves Saint Laurent
Wed 03 / 19:30 / Musée Yves Saint Laurent
Mon 01 / 17:00 / Musée Yves Saint Laurent
Wed 03 / 19:30 / Musée Yves Saint Laurent

Time goes by and Lebanon continues to sink. Between past and present, sleep and wakefulness, dreams and reality, Réda, Adel, and Qassem just wait by the sea—not for a miracle to come and rescue them, but for the whole country to be wrecked.

Director Dima El-Horr

Producer Paul Rognoni, Sabine Sidawi, Paul Antoine Simonpoli

Screenwriter Dima el-Horr

Cinematographer Dima el-Horr

Editor Sandra Fatte

Sound Raed Younane, Victor Bresse, Jean-Jacques Vogelbach

Music Pierre Aviat

Reda Sheib, Adel Slim, Qassem Abani

Production Companies Mareterraniu, Orjouane Productions

Pays

France, Lebanon, Saoudi Arabia

année

2025

durée

69

langue

Arabic