Remi Itani's debut documentary offers a snapshot of the Bab Al Tabbaneh district of Tripoli, an area which in addition to suffering from more general socioeconomic problems faces a raft of community tensions - the vestiges of old resentments from the Lebabnese Civil War and the spill-over from the conflict in neighbouring Syria.
Itani comes at the neighbourhood from the perspective of Ibrahim and Mahasen, not long married and with a baby on the way. There's a tear tattoo on Ibrahim's face but he also seems to bear an equally permanent internal imprint of sadness. He might be full of bravado when the director asks him about his plans for fatherhood, quickly turning his defence into offence by suggesting that she "has complexes", but often when her camera catches him when he's less aware of it, his face betrays and engrained and permanent level of anxiety.
As Itani observes his day-to-day interactions with.
Itani comes at the neighbourhood from the perspective of Ibrahim and Mahasen, not long married and with a baby on the way. There's a tear tattoo on Ibrahim's face but he also seems to bear an equally permanent internal imprint of sadness. He might be full of bravado when the director asks him about his plans for fatherhood, quickly turning his defence into offence by suggesting that she "has complexes", but often when her camera catches him when he's less aware of it, his face betrays and engrained and permanent level of anxiety.
As Itani observes his day-to-day interactions with.
- 4/5/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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