TheSeaAhead

The Sea Ahead

By Ely Dagher

With: Manal Issa, Roger Azar, Yara Abou Haidar, Rabih El Zaher, Fadi Abi Samra

After a long time gone, Jana, a young woman, suddenly returns to Beirut. She finds herself reconnecting with the familiar yet strange life she had once left.

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Festivals & Awards

Festival de Cannes 2021 – Directors’ Fortnight

BFI London Film Festival 2021 – Official Selection

Press

A cinematic journey that echoes work by Michelangelo Antonioni

Cineuropa

Dagher develops a particular and talented way of enriching his shots with a kind of aesthetics bliss from which often arises a powerful sense of poetry

Vanity Fair

In this first mesmerizing feature, Ely Dagher intertwines the future of a Beirut in crisis and the existential wandering of the young Jana

Libération

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