HEAVEN SENT
synopsis
Contemporary Lebanon. Omar is a bodyguard in Beirut and has his first client to protect: Yasmine, who wants to start a career in politics. One evening, Omar is accidentally reunited with his older brother Samir, a former militiaman. There would be nothing strange about this if it weren't for the fact that Samir has been presumed dead ever since the civil war. They haven't seen each other for 20 years. After such a long time, how can the "resurrected" Samir face a country that he doesn’t recognize? How can he rebuild links with his family? A comedy drama about how the consequences of the civil war in Lebanon, which ended in 1990, resonate in the present day.
international title: | Heaven Sent |
original title: | Tombé du ciel |
country: | France, Lebanon |
sales agent: | Pascale Ramonda Paris |
year: | 2016 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Wissam Charaf |
film run: | 70' |
release date: | FR 15/03/2017 |
screenplay: | Wissam Charaf, Mariette Désert |
cast: | Rodrigue Sleiman, Raed Yassin, Said Serhan, Yumna Marwan, George Melki |
cinematography by: | Martin Rit |
film editing: | William Laboury |
art director: | Farah Naboulsi |
music: | Wissam Charaf |
producer: | Charlotte Vincent |
co-producer: | Pierre Sarraf |
production: | Aurora Films, Né à Beyrouth Films |
backing: | Arte France, Centre National du Cinema et de l'Image Animée, PROCIREP-ANGOA, Region Ile de France, PROGRAMME EUROPE CREATIVE de l'Union Européenne, Torino FILMLAB, Moulin d’Ande-Ceci / Centre des écritures Cinématographiques, FILM CLINIC / DUBAI international Film Festival, bourse d’aide au développement CINEMED, Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Montpellier |
distributor: | Epicentre Films |