Yearning to Know

DIRECTOR

Sacha Daher

RUN TIME

14 minutes

LANGUAGE

Arabic with English Subtitles

YEAR

2024

Country

Lebanon

English Subtitles

Yes

Genre

Drama, Short

Cast

Oumaya Lahoud, Michelle Sakr

Classification

Restricted to persons aged 15 years and over unless accompanied by an adult

Synopsis

In the quiet Bekaa Valley town of Rayak, 10-year-old Sarah lives with her 70-year-old grandmother, Hayat. When she stumbles upon recent money transfer receipts from her father—long believed to have died in the Beirut blast—Sarah sets out on a determined search for the truth.

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