TRAMONTANE

Vatche Boulghourjian

Part of CAIRO CINEMA DAYS

Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. His life unravels when he applies for a passport and discovers that his identification card is a forgery. Traveling across rural Lebanon in search of a record of his own birth, he meets people on the far fringes of society who tell their own stories, open further questions and give him minor clues about his identity. He encounters a nation incapable of telling his or its own narrative.

Year

2016

Duration

105 min

Language

Arabic

Subtitles

ENGLISH, FRENCH SUBTITLES

Countries

Lebanon

Genre

FICTION, DRAMA