Gilbert Mhanna

From the album Mouvance, Nous partirons combines the text of Serge Patrice Thibodeau, the voice of Suzie LeBlanc, and the music of Jérôme Blais, narrating the exile and quest for freedom of a young Lebanese man driven by political circumstances to emigrate to Canada.

For the elderly man preparing for his grandson’s wedding in Manon Nammour’s film, the accelerating rate of change in Beirut threatens to create a city he no longer knows by heart.