VENICE : Filmmaker Mounia Akl says her feature debut"Costa Brava, Lebanon" became an act of resistance and a means to survive when a deadly blast tore through Beirut a day after she had convened her film team in the capital for preproduction.
"Lebanon is going through such a hard time and this film is a love letter to Beirut," Akl, 32, told Reuters at the Venice Film Festival, where the movie made its world premiere on Sunday. Framed by an environmental and economic crisis, the film follows the Badri family, which has relocated to the mountains to escape the toxic air and troubles of Beirut. In the safe-haven of their seclusion, the parents grapple with a sense of guilt over abandoning their activist roots in order to provide a future for their two daughters. Then a new garbage landfill is suddenly built in front of their property, and as rubbish begins to pile up, so too rise the tensions in the family.
"I am personally living a bit like the Badri family with my own family, we live in the mountains far away from Beirut," Labaki told Reuters.
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