
This screening is available globally.
Elektra, My Love is a kammerspiel-film set in the moody, cavernous ruin of the Piccadilly Theater, Beirut’s extravagant art palace destroyed after the Lebanese Civil War, the film recounts three days in the life of five actresses. The women seek to revive the ghostly theater with an experimental production of Sophocles’ Elektra. In writing and directing the film, I wanted to show the austere fall of the people of Beirut after decades of war, within my own dream of the passage of the soul.
- Year2021
- Runtime89 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryLebanon, Germany
- DirectorHisham Bizri
- ScreenwriterHisham Bizri
- ProducerHisham Bizri & Mirna Shbaro
- EditorCharbel Abi Semaan, Hisham Bizri, Mirna Shbaro
This screening is available globally.
Elektra, My Love is a kammerspiel-film set in the moody, cavernous ruin of the Piccadilly Theater, Beirut’s extravagant art palace destroyed after the Lebanese Civil War, the film recounts three days in the life of five actresses. The women seek to revive the ghostly theater with an experimental production of Sophocles’ Elektra. In writing and directing the film, I wanted to show the austere fall of the people of Beirut after decades of war, within my own dream of the passage of the soul.
- Year2021
- Runtime89 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryLebanon, Germany
- DirectorHisham Bizri
- ScreenwriterHisham Bizri
- ProducerHisham Bizri & Mirna Shbaro
- EditorCharbel Abi Semaan, Hisham Bizri, Mirna Shbaro