Film

A Time To Rest

2015 · 1h 6m · Documentary

Riad, a middle-aged man, holds a firearm shop in a neighbourhood of Beirut. When he meets up with his friends or goes hunting with them, it is often with the aim of evoking together their memories of the civil war fought in the Christian militia. They live in nostalgia for the war that impassioned their youth. Director Myriam El Hajj builds solid architectural images that interrogate — and, perhaps, over time even manage to articulate — the intimate origins of violence that never seems to depart and a past that doesn't want to let go of the present.

• Myriam El HajjDirector · Writer
• Laurent RothWriter
• Hugues LandryProducer
• Myriam SassineProducer
• Georges SchoucairProducer
• Anita PérezEditor

Release date

April 20, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

Arabic

Runtime

1h 6m

Genres

Documentary