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Al Yaoum

This Day
Aujourd'hui
Akram Zaatari
2003 Lebanon 86 minutes English; Arabic

This Day unravels a dual journey – extroverted in place, introverted in memory. Beginning with a photograph taken in the 1950s by historian Jibrail Jabbour, the film journeys further into Jabbour’s photographic archives, then into the filmmaker’s personal photo-diary of the Israeli invasion of his hometown, Saida. Zaatari probes that obscure compulsion to document one’s environs in the everyday, or when enduring a potentially fatal event.

Production :
Akram Zaatari
Editing :
Elias Chahine
Sound :
Carole Issa
Photography :
Akram Zaatari
Copy Contact :
Akram Zaatari

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