Alitisal (The Call)

DIRECTOR

Sabine Kahwaji

RUN TIME

19 minutes

LANGUAGE

Arabic with English Subtitles

YEAR

2024

Country

Lebanon

Genre

Drama, Short

Cast

Omar Sidani, Vanessa Issa, Marc Yammine, Dima-Thalia Rizk

Classification

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

Synopsis

As a deadly explosion shatters their hometown of Beirut, three siblings living abroad confront their mental health struggles amid uncertainty about their parents’ fate.

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