ARTEEAST Events - Arts and Cultures of the Middle East and its diasporas

CinemaEast Film Detail:

No Connection
by Myriam Sassine (2006, miniDV, RT: 10 min.)

Synopsis
Three young women in their early twenties are stranded far from their homes in the Beqaa valley in Beirut. Disrupted by the war, they each struggle to make sense of their lives: one decides to leave the country, the second becomes involved in humanitarian work, and the third decides to confront her frustrations through film.

From the series Summertime 2006, produced by Ashkal Alwan, funded by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development.

Filmmaker's Biography
Myriam Sassine graduated with a degree in Audio-Visual and Cinema Studies from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA). She is presently pursuing graduate studies at the Institut d’Etudes Sonores et Audio-Visuelles (IESAV) at the St. Joseph University in Beirut. She has directed three short videos, Business Meeting, Borhan Alaouie the Encounter.