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Tank You
by Zaid Antar. 2006, Lebanon, 12 min.

Synopsis
In the early days of the Israeli assault on the coastal city of Sidon, its roads and bridges were destroyed, cutting off any contact with the rest of the country. Fear of fuel short-ages spread panic in the city. This video records a conversation with a woman who is waiting in a frustrated crowd at a gas station, and as she talks freely to the filmmaker about her life, we realize that her tank is full.

Filmmaker's Biography
Ziad Antar lives and works between Saida, Lebanon and Paris, France. He graduated with a degree in agricultural engineering in 2001, and has been working in photography and video since 2002. His videos include Safe Sound(2006), Marche Turque(2007) and Mdardara(2007). He directed his first documentary Jean-Luc Moulènein 2002, and has since made several documentaries for the Arabic news channel al-Arabiya.