Movie Buffs Productions & Kino Lorber
Presents:
"COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON"
Winner – Audience Award - BFI London Film Festival
Winner – NETPAC Award - Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection – Venice International Film Festival
Starring: Nadine Labaki & Saleh Bakri
Directed by: Mounia Akl
Costa Brava, Lebanon captures the joys and frustrations of a close-knit family with an intimacy that feels startlingly natural, and sets them against a sharply drawn backdrop of environmental crisis. In the not-so-distant future, the free-spirited Badri family have escaped the toxic pollution and social unrest of Beirut by seeking refuge in an idyllic mountain home. Without warning, the government starts to build a garbage landfill right outside their fence, intruding on their domestic utopia and bringing the trash and corruption of a whole country to their doorstep. As the landfill rises, so does tension in the household, revealing a long-simmering division between those family members who wish to defend or abandon the mountain oasis they have built. Mounia Akl’s stunning feature debut premiered at Venice and won major prizes at the Toronto and BFI London Film Festivals. Her unique gift with actors is evident in the sensitively realized performances she elicits from her cast, which includes award-winning filmmaker Nadine Labaki (Capernaum) and celebrated actor Saleh Bakri (The Band’s Visit, Walid).
*Doors open 30 minutes before the show.
*Seating is based on first come first serve.
*Tickets are sold online only.
*All types of vidoe or photography recording is prohibited.