Returning to Beirut from Toronto, desperately in search of roots, Amir falls in love with a stranger by the sea. In the end, the explosion cares for nobody, leaving behind traces of undeniable desire.
In this auto-fiction film, director Raghed Charabaty plays himself, recreating real moments of his life from that fateful Beirut summer, filmed by wildlife filmmaker Xin Liu.
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Raghed CharabatyRaghed (Ray) Charabaty is a Lebanese-Canadian director and screenwriter based in Toronto and Beirut, and a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada. Their 14 films have screened at 200+ festivals, won at TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten, and entered art collections. A CFC Directors Lab and two-time Netflix Banff fellow, they hold an MFA from York and work in English, French, and Arabic.