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Genre : Drama | Original Language : Arabic | Country : France, Lebanon, United Kingdom
Directed by : Philippe Aractingi Screenplay : Michel Léviant and Philippe Aractingi Cinematographer : Nidal Abdel Khalek Editor : Deena Charara
Producers/ Co- Producers : Hervé Chabalier, François Cohen-Séat, Paul Raphael, Philippe Aractingi
Duration : 95 mins
“This is a film that doesn't take sides. It is a film that tells the suffering of the innocent...”
Philippe Aractingi, (director)
Original Title
Sous Les Bombes
Synopsis
Lebanon - Summer 2006 – The country is bombed relentlessly for 34 days in a row.Director Phillipe Aractingi shot Under The Bombs ten days after war broke out. Filmed amidst the turmoil of a country in combat, it is a hard-hitting insight into the ravages of war.Zeina learns that her son Karim is missing in Lebanon. With only Tony, a taxi-driver, for company, she searches anxiously for Karim in the war-torn country. The two set off on a frantic journey in a country besieged by terror. Zeina lives in Dubai. In the midst of a divorce, she sends her son Karim to stay with her sister in Kherbet Selem, a small village in south Lebanon. A few days later war breaks out. Desperately worried, Zeina immediately heads to Lebanon via Turkey. Because of the road blockades she doesn’t reach the port of Beirut until the day of the ceasefire. There she meets Tony, the only taxi-driver who agrees to take her to the South.
Tony is a Christian. He lives in Beirut. Zeina is a Shiite. They have little in common but under these circumstances, that becomes irrelevant as they search the refugee centres across a ravaged country. When they get to Kherbet Selem, the town is in ruins. Zeina’s sister has been killed and Ali, a young boy, tells them that Karim has been taken away by French journalists. Zeina and Tony set out in search of the lost child… on a journey that brings them together as they encounter death and destruction everywhere.
Director Phillipe Aractingi shot the film ten days after war broke out in his native land Lebanon amidst the turmoil and ruin of a country at war. Winner of the EIUC Human Rights Film Award at the 2007 Venice International Film Festival, Under The Bombs is a hard-hitting insight into the ravages of war.
