Dirty Difficult Dangerous
France, Italy, Lebanon, Qatar / 2022 / 83 min
In Arabic, Amharic, English and Bengali with English subtitles
Venice Film Festival

Star-crossed lovers Ahmed and Mehdia couldn’t be more different — he’s a Syrian refugee selling scrap metal for a living while she’s an Ethiopian domestic worker employed by eccentrics — and they struggle to find time for the briefest embrace. Both are caged and both desire escape from their lives in modern-day Beirut. Yet when they finally grasp the chance to flee and start over, Ahmed’s mysterious disease worsens: his body, already expelling iron and rust, is slowly and irreversibly turning into metal. French-Lebanese filmmaker Wissam Charaf draws inspiration from real-life suffering and social problems, molding his themes into an allegorical fairy tale that’s fresh, unexpected and utterly cinematic.

DIR:
Wissam Charaf
CAST:
Clara Couturet, Ziad Jallad, Rifaat Tarabay, Darina Al Joundi
TIME & VENUE
30/10 1:30PM PALACE ifc
* 10/11 9:30PM Broadway Cinematheque
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