Renaud Pachot is a filmmaker who grew up in rural France. He met Liana Kassir in Paris in 2007. They moved to Beirut and purchased a Super 16mm camera. Essays and short films followed, written and directed jointly in both Lebanon and France.
Two tired combatants wait for night to fall, by the Dog River.
France, 2019, in the middle of a village: "Le Palais Oriental." In this shisha bar, the Lebanese waitress welcomes her customers who have come to listen to the 8 p.m. news. It's a special moment where everyone can, for a brief moment, see and hear news from their country. That evening, Lebanon is on fire.
On a full moon night, the young Najwa and the musician Mansour reach Beirut. They follow the trail of smugglers to join a woman on the other side of the sea. A few streets away, Selim, the old lighthouse keeper, tries to repair the electricity of his neighborhood.
