watch TrailerIF THE SUN DROWNED INTO AN OCEAN OF CLOUDS
a film by
Wissam Charaf
20 min /
Short, Comedy
France, Lebanon
Set on the waterfront of a construction site in Beirut, Lebanon, the story follows Raed — a security guard who must prevent passers-by from accessing the shoreline.
Yet, as the horizon becomes more obscured with every passing day by the under-construction building, Raed begins finding himself in all manner of peculiar encounters — or maybe mere dreams and figments of his desires?
Cast
- Raed Yassin
- Rodrigue Sleiman
- Said Serhan
- Hala Dabaji
Crew
- Screenwriter: Wissam Charaf
- DOP: Martin Rit
- Editor: Wissam Charaf and Clémence Diard
Original Title: Et Si Le Soleil Plongeait Dans L'océan Des Nues
Production Company(ies):
Producer(s):
Production Company(ies):
Aurora Films and Né à Beyrouth Films
Producer(s):
Charlotte Vincent, Katia Khazak, and Pierre Sarraf
- Venice International Film Festival, Italy
- Cinemed – Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, France (Special Mention)
- Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden
- Cork International Film Festival, Ireland
- Arab Film Festival of the Arab Film and Media Institute, US
- Aix-en-Provence Tous Courts Short Film Festival, France (International Competition Unifrance Award)
- Ciudades Reveladas – Muestra Internacional de Cine y Ciudad, Argentine
- Beirut Shorts International Film Festival, Lebanon (Best Short Film Award and the Emile Chahine Award For Cinematic Excellence)
- The Auteur's Passage: Mediterranean Interlacements, Italy
- Prague Short Film Festival, Czech Republic
- Flickerfest, Australia
- Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Poitiers Film Festival, France
- Cinemamed Festival, Belgium
- Franco Film Festival, UAE
- Festival Ecrans Urbains, Switzerland
- Aflam du Sud Festival, Belgium
- Aflam Festival Marseille, France
- Format Court Festival, France
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France (National Special Jury Award)
- Ciné-Palestine Toulouse, France
- Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania
- Barbican Sonic Film Festival
- ALFILM - Arab Film Festival Berlin, Germany
- Les Rencontres internationales de cinéma d’Aflam, France
- Special Mention at Cinemed - Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival
- Best Short Film and Emile Chahine Award For Cinematic Excellence at the Beirut Shorts International Film Festival
- Unifrance International Award at the Festival International de Courts Métrages d'Aix-en-Provence
- National Special Jury Award at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
