Dana Mikhail

As mold spreads through the city of Beirut, a woman faced with an auto-immune syndrome questions her ambivalent relationship with her body, surroundings, and the return of her partner.

Tadur is a pastoral escapade. It depicts an imaginary world deep in Mount Lebanon, where criminals, impoverished farmers, and monastic sages are immersed in both beauty and brutality. The Arabic word "tadur" encapsulates the essence of this world, meaning to spin, orbit, turn, revolve, rotate, cycle, or circle.

In 1958, while revolution is rumbling in Beirut, three sisters spend their holidays in an isolated village of Lebanese mountains: rebellious Nada, romantic Eva, and the eldest Layla, a good woman, beloved by everyone. But the war threatens and the sudden entrance of two French summer vacationers leads Layla to revolt against patriarchal society.

Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.