Costa Brava Lebanon
Directed by Mounia Akl
Lebanon/France/Sweden/Denmark/Norway/Spain 2021
The Badri family lives in isolation in Lebanon’s mountains. When the government inaugurates a landfill outside their fence, everything they escaped catches up with them.
Debut feature of rising talent Mounia Akl, whose Award-winning short film SUBMARINE (2016) was selected in Cannes and Toronto. The project won Malmö Arab Film Festival's Feature development Award, as well as development grants at Sundance, Cannes Cinefondation, Torino Film Lab etc.
DIRECTOR
Mounia Akl
SCRIPTWRITERS
Mounia Akl, Clara Roquet
PRODUCERS
Myriam Sassine, Georges Schoucair, Olivier Guerpillon, Katrin Pors, Sophie Erbs, Sergi Moreno
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Joe Saade
MUSIC
Nathan Larson
EDITING
Cyril Aris
MAIN CAST
Nadine Labaki, Saleh Bakri
PRODUCED BY
Abbout Productions (Myriam Sassine, Georges Schoucair), Lebanon, fox in the snow (Olivier Guerpillon), Sweden, Snowglobe (Katrin Pors), Denmark, Cinema Defacto (Sophie Erbs), France, Barentsfilm (Ingrid Høgtun), Norway, Lastor Media (Sergi Moreno), Spain
in co-production with Film i Skåne
WITH SUPPORT FROM
Swedish Film Institute, Danish Film Institute, Sørfond, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) etc
SWEDISH DISTRIBUTION
Folkets Bio
WORLD SALES
MK2 Films
STATUS
Post-Production
