PARLE-MOI DE 1985

Synopsis

Note d'intention

My father’s fate was part of the collective history of the Middle East. Hearing his story, a different version each time, by loved ones, media and other victims of the Lebanese civil war, I could not relate directly or viscerally, to any of these stories. Ever since, I have lived with the powerful presence of my father’s absence. I have had many feelings towards his abductors, but never anger nor a desire for revenge. Sulla chooses to love the enemy of her enemy, an Israeli man. In the midst of her anger, she speaks to her father’s abductors, longing to be heard by them. Through Sulla’s story, I rearrange reality and finally take back control over my own story. In the face of inaccessible justice, I respond to an act of terror with an imperative other act, which is this film.