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NAHNOU FIL DAKHEL

By Farah KASSEM

ROAD2FILMS - as PROD

Family - Completed 2024

After more than a decade, Farah returns to her hometown Tripoli in Lebanon to live with her widowed aging father, Mustapha.
It’s her last chance to be part of her father’s world, though it must be through the only language he understands: poetry.

Festivals
& Awards

El Gouna Film Festival 2024
Visions du Réel 2024
International Competition, Jury Special mention
Golden Apricot - Yerevan IFF 2024
Regional Competition, Best FilmAward
IDFA 2024
Best of Fests
ENTREVUES - Festival international du film de Belfort 2024
kasseler 2024
El Gouna Film Festival 2024
Documentary Competition
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal 2024
Panorama
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Family, Female director, Documentary
    • Countries
    • LEBANON, QATAR, DENMARK
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 180 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Farah KASSEM
    • Writer(s)
    • Farah KASSEM
    • Producer(s)
    • Cynthia CHOUCAIR (road2films)
    • Synopsis
    • After more than a decade, Farah returns home to Tripoli, Lebanon, to care for her aging widowed father, Mustapha only to find her city in crisis. Their generational differences often lead to clashing perspectives on the country’s political instability, making it difficult to communicate with each other. But within this lack of understanding there’s humour and a will to understand. There’s a secret refuge: Mustapha’s weekly all-male poetry club, where a small group of stubborn yet lovable men gather to share poems in classical Arabic over sweets and with an agreement to disagree about everything.
      In order to connect with her father, Farah decides to join the club and address Mustapha in verses to connect with the poet in him. As Mustapha’s health deteriorates and the October 2019 revolution erupts nationwide, poetry becomes their chance for one last conversation.