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DOCUMENTARY / COMING SOON
FIRST FILM
To Close Your Eyes And See Fire
Nicola von Leffern, Jakob Carl Sauer
Beirut lies shattered after one of the largest explosions in history ripped through the heart of the city. Clean, rebuild
and move on, an all too familiar experience for most Lebanese. But how to keep on going when even the entire city blowing
up is still not rock bottom? While a phone operator at the cities helpline takes distraught calls in the early morning hours,
a Syrian refugee family living in an underground parking plots to pay human traffickers to escape the country. A dancer and
a painter cope through their artistic ways and a family tries to mourn the loss of their brother, no matter the consequences.
A dense poetic mosaic about life after tragedy.
Technical Data | |
Language spoken: | Arabic, English, French |
Completion expected: | spring 2024 |
Credits | |
Director(s): | Nicola von Leffern, Jakob Carl Sauer |
Writer(s): | Nicola von Leffern, Jakob Carl Sauer |
Cinematography: | Jakob Carl Sauer |
Editing: | Matthias Writze |
Producers: | Peter Drössler, Sabine Gruber, Arash T. Riahi, Jakob Carl Sauer, Nicola von Leffern |
Production company
Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH
Seidengasse 15/3/20
1070 Vienna
tel:+43 1 810 56 36