Sylvie Ballyot’s GREEN LINE is holding its theatrical release at 5:45 pm on August 2nd at Zawya Cinema — Cairo’s very own designated art-house cinema hotspot — before screening once more on the 5th at 7 pm.
 
GREEN LINE follows Fida, a girl who grew up in war-torn Beirut hearing her grandmother's stories of the ‘red hell.’ The film’s clever use of miniatures to tell a dark story of a childhood ravaged by war speaks volumes. With the help of stop motion, Fida confronts the realities of war that haunted her childhood.
The film received a MUBI Award as well as the Junior Jury Prize at the Locarno festival, Grand Prize of the Ismailia Festival in Egypt, and Atlas Distribution Award at Marrakech.
 
It is written by Sylvie Ballyot and Fida Bizri, produced by Céline Loiseau, and animated by Nicolas Lemée alongside Ballyot herself.
 
A graduate of the Fémis Film School in Paris, Sylvie Ballyot directed several shorts and medium-length fiction films that explore love and family relationships, including ALICE, TEL PÈRE TELLE FILLE — selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2007— MOI TOUT SEUL, and the award-winning 2008 documentary LOVE AND WORDS ARE POLITICS that was shot in Yemen.
 
In addition to directing and co-writing GREEN LINE, Ballyot also lensed the film, alongside Béatrice Kordon, co-edited the film with Charlotte Tourrès, and composed the music, along with Luc Meilland.