| 2020 STANK|
A film by Roy Arida
Fiction
78 minutes
With Alain Najm, Nathalie Japiot, Ralph Choueiri, Elie Lteif, Toufic Khreich, Rony Khoueiry, Roland Najm
Aide à la production avant réalisation from CNC
Bourse Brouillon d’un rêve from SCAM
Bourse Lumière from Institut Français
Post-production assistance from AFAC
International sales: Indie Sales
MENA sales and distribution: Mad solutions
Beirut, Lebanon.
As a series of car bombs rips through the city, a young man in his thirties decides to turn his back on the dire situation in his country and attempt to break the world scuba diving record.
Broadcasts :
– Warsaw International Film Festival 2020, Poland
– La Roche-Sur-Yon International Film Festival 2020, France
– Cairo International Film Festival 2020, Egypt – Saad Eldin Wahba Award for Best Arab Film
– Hainan Island International Film Festival 2020, China
– Malmö Arab Film Festival 2021, Sweden
– FAJR International Film Festival 2021, Iran
– WOW Film Festival, Ecosinema “Reflecting on Water”, 2021, Wales
– Tripoli Film Festival 2021, Lebanon – Special Jury Prize
– Coronado Island Film Festival 2021, USA
– Travelling Film Festival 2022, Rennes, France
– Toronto Arab Film Festival 2022, Canada
– National tour in collaboration with the Institut Français, 2022, Morocco
– 1st Prize “Cinéma Coup de coeur” of the Boghossian Foundation in partnership with the Fondation Liban Cinéma
– Lebanese film week, 2022, Beirut, Lebanon
– Lebanese film festival 2022, Canada
– Poitiers film festival 2023, France
Broadcast on SBS ON DEMAND (Australia), SHAHID شاهد (Mena), NETFLIX (Mena), RTS 1 (Switzerland).