A City and a Woman

A City and a Woman

Une Ville et une Femme
🎞️ Movie 13 min
2020

On August 4, a large explosion shakes Beirut. All human life disappears. A woman inhabits the city. Shot in the wake of the Beirut-port explosion in 2020, the film starts from a letter that American-Syrian poet Etel Adnan wrote almost three decades earlier, in 1992, after the Lebanon civil war.