- Falling From Earth
Infobox_Film
caption =Movie Poster
name =Falling from earth -و على الأرض السماﺀ
imdb_id =1252287
writer =Chadi Zeneddine
starring =Rafik Ali Ahmad Carmen Lebbos Ammar Shalak Naya Salameh Yamen Sukkarieh Nicole Kamato Imad Creidi
director =Chadi Zeneddine
released =Dubai December, 2007
runtime =70 min.
country =flag|Lebanon
music =
website =http://www.fallingfromearth.com/
budget =
cinematography =Johnny Abi-Fares
language =Arabic
producer = Artwist Productions Néon Productions
distributor =|"Falling From Earth" (Arabic: و على الأرض السماﺀ - "wa-ala el ard el sama'a") is a 2007 Lebanese film written, produced and directed by
Chadi Zeneddine . The film premiered on December 13, 2007 at theDubai International Film Festival . It was running for theMuhr award [ [http://www.dubaifilmfest.com/en/movies/the-muhr-awards-narrative-features-in-competition/wa-ala-el-ard-el-samaa-falling-from-earth.html WA-ALA EL ARD EL SAMA’A (FALLING FROM EARTH) - Dubai International Film Festival 2007 ] ] Falling From Earth is Zeneddine's first feature film.ynopsis
Youssef, a wise fool, lives in the remains of a building, collecting photographs of happy people. Behind each photograph lie millions of implosions of a city wounded by time. Chapter after chapter, they are all still waiting for ... Beirut
Director's Statement
I started shooting the film 3 years ago with a crew of mostly first-timers. The film was interrupted several times and so I would continue shooting every six months for a couple of days; the financial strain was burdening.... and I was falling apart at times.The project started with the internal fear and heaviness that I had felt due to post-war trauma after I returned to Beirut. It was in no way the physical war that had affected me: I had not lived it. But I could not ignore how mute and destroyed most of us are, despite the effort we put in denying and defying it all through our survival instincts.... but I also could not ignore that I was falling deep in love with the undying city. Some time later, when ‘another’ war broke out, I did remember the SOUND of it... It was haunting me everywhere I went, just like it does to the main character of the film: it has become our shadow and greatest enemy.Through different chapters that somehow represent several key dates in the perpetual conflict(s), I watch my characters lost and voiceless turning around in circles, still searching or waiting for a ‘no way’ out... indeed a ‘no way’ out, for they are not fallen angels, they are simple humans FALLING FROM EARTH and craving to stay in Beirut, where angels are re-born... [ [http://www.fallingfromearth.com/index.html Falling from Earth - the movie ] ]
Cast
* Rafik Ali Ahmad
* Carmen Lebbos
* Ammar Shalak
* Naya Salameh
* Yamen Sukkarieh
* Nicole Kamato
* Imad Creidi
* Christine Choueiri
* Pierre Dagher
* Ziad Said
* Amal Ftouni
* Georges ArbidTrivia
*The film original title was Waiting for ... Beirut.
References
External links
* [http://www.fallingfromearth.com Official Website]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkcB1KLziJg Trailer of the movie]
* [http://www.med-screen.com/waiting_fr.html Making Of Videos]
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