Grégoire Couvert

The Tears of Minos

All over France, Anne, Françoise, Huguette, Joseph, Lucien and Sylvie are always full of love. Hada, a young nursing assistant in a nursing home, also notices this. They love their friends, their family, their lifelong lovers, their childhood sweethearts and sometimes even several lovers at once. Despite illnesses, difficulties and assigned roles, love in all its forms protects them... from 7 to 97 years old.

Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace are caught in an endless cycle, musicians from different backgrounds pool their talents to create an underground music scene. Each evokes his or her representation of Lebanon: its shifting geographical, political, historical and social borders, its painful passage through conflict and instability. A touching portrait of a young generation trying to build an oasis in a hostile environment where the forces of destruction continue to wreak havoc.

Please, father, can you let the future sleep a little longer, as it should be? Because if we wake it up too early, we get a sleepy present. This film poem was made from footage archived on the Ciclic Mémoire website.