In doing so, it catapulted Akl and the film’s young stars into the regional spotlight.
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The movie not only won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Debut Film at the El Gouna Film Festival earlier this month, but the inaugural El Gouna Green Star Award for sustainability. It would go on to pick up the audience award at the BFI London Film Festival, but it was arguably in Egypt that the film began to gather serious momentum. About how outside pressure in Lebanon leads to people not having the time to exist or to take care of themselves, which brings out our own demons because we’re always in a state of crisis.”įilmed over 36 days in November and December last year and produced by Abbout Productions, “Costa Brava” had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September and won the NETPAC Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival soon after. So I wanted to make a movie about that friction. I was convinced that there was a relationship between the outside pressure that they felt and the fact that my parents had moments of vulnerability. “Growing up, I always thought that it was because of Lebanon that my parents were fighting.
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“I’ve always been obsessed with family and how, by observing the structure of a family, you can understand the cracks in a society,” says Akl, who co-wrote the film with Clara Roquet. It is an act of environmental vandalism that will soon cause familial fault lines to appear. However, their utopian dreams are shattered when the construction of an illegal landfill site on a hill bordering their property brings the country’s trash crisis to their doorstep. The film stars Saleh Bakri and Nadine Labaki. Living with this quirky, free-spirited family is Walid’s ageing mother, Zeina (Liliane Chacar Khoury). Together they live a life of splendid isolation in the mountains overlooking Beirut, having escaped the city’s toxic pollution to enjoy an eco-conscious, self-sufficient existence. In “Costa Brava,” that family consists of former political activists Walid (Saleh Bakri) and Souraya (Nadine Labaki) and their children Tala (Nadia Charbel) and Rim (Geana and Ceana Restom). Into this world of activism Akl has thrown her fascination with family. It was all linked to political corruption.” It was not just an environmental disaster that transformed our city. The crisis also felt like it was a great metaphor for everything that was wrong about the country. At the time of the garbage crisis I remember it felt like the streets belonged to my generation. I never felt like I belonged to that world. “I grew up after the civil war in a country where you only matter when you’re following a certain person or a certain political party.
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“It was the first time that I felt like I belonged to a movement, because that movement was leaderless in a way,” says Akl of the protests. It’s a topic Akl knows only too well, having covered similar ground in her award-winning short, “Submarine,” and protested during the country’s 2015 trash crisis. The Lebanese director is sitting quietly in a corner of the TU Berlin Campus El Gouna, patiently discussing her debut feature, “Costa Brava, Lebanon.” At the film’s core is Lebanon’s trash crisis - a toxic and tragic disaster that has laid bare the fissures in Lebanese society. It’s just that ‘Submarine’ was a fragment of ‘Costa Brava’ in many ways.” But I think ‘Submarine,’ for me, was a stepping stone to ‘Costa Brava.’ So it’s not like I’ve been obsessed with trash all my life. “Actually, it’s funny because I have been called ‘the trash director’ by friends.
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CAIRO: “Why am I obsessed with trash?” asks Mounia Akl with a laugh.