Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Robert De Niro, et. al.
The Doha Tribeca Film Festival ended a week ago, but YouTube has taken up the slack, prominently featuring four short films and one feature from the festival in the screening room. So far I’ve only gotten through the most-watched short film of the bunch (the English title given in the credits, The North Road, leaves something to be desired: compare with its top-billed French title, La Route du Nord, and the Arabic title, الطريق الى الشمال). In the interest of better expressing the film’s contents, I propose the film be retitled The Road to the North, or The Road North. But I digress. Here’s a link to the film on YouTube in high-quality (no embedding sadly).
I highly recommend it. It’s pretty short, about 25 minutes, and it’s a fascinating meditation on French-Lebanese identity, memory, belonging, loss, post-colonialism, culture. Don’t miss it. Just try not to read the absurd comments beforehand.
