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"Costa Brava, Lebanon" by Mounia Akl, portrait of a family trying to cope with the crisis
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Poster of the film Costa Brava, Lebanon by Mounia Akl.
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By: Sébastien Jédor Follow
A first film by a director who comes to us from Lebanon.
On the heights of Beirut, Soraya and Walid Badri have built a little paradise.
Wooden chalet, luxuriant garden, swimming pool and small vegetable garden, they live with their two daughters and the grandmother in a semi-autarky.
But the outside world catches up with them when the state decides to build a giant landfill just a stone's throw from their home.
By embodying this couple in turmoil, they skilfully sketch the portrait of a country undermined by bankruptcy.
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