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The Sea Ahead
In the middle of the night a young woman makes her way back to her parents’ house in Beirut. Having been abroad and out of touch for a while, Jana seems to be leaving a bad experience behind and taking refuge. Haunting pressures to fit back into the family dynamics as well as revealing details of her life abroad weigh heavy on her. Feeling cornered, her fears and anxieties resurface leading her to reconnect and find herself with another part of her Beirut life that she had forsaken. A life that is for her as familiar and foreign now as it ever was.
Feature Fiction, Lebanon
Status: In Post-production
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About The Director
Filmmaker and artist Ely Dagher was born and raised in Beirut. He graduated with an MA in Contemporary Art Studies and new media from Goldsmiths College in London. He has been working and mixing different practices on various projects in the art world. The director’s work is diverse and he works across different mediums. In 2011 Ely founded BeaverAndBeaver to tackle different moving images projects from videos to animations. Ely’s latest short film ‘Waves ‘98’ was awarded the short film Palme D’Or at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
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