During the civil war in Lebanon, many lebanese people fled to Europe abandoning their large apartments, their sumptuous villas and… the servants they had'imported' by the thousand from Sri-Lanka, from the Philippines and from Egypt.
In our story, all these people - and many others beside- remain to suffer the mood-swings of a sniper who controls their building, dominating its inhabitants ad the neighbourhood as a whole, as well as several of the city's perilous checkpoints.

Their stories weave in and out of the tale of the young Muslim militiaman and a Christian maid, as well as the traumatic adventures of a rich lady who flies in for tryst with her lover - not to mention the trials and tribulations of Beirut cats.

Randa CHAHAL SABBAG, Lebanon, 1999, 1h37', fiction

Written and directed by
Randa Chahal

CAST
Jalila Baccar - Viviane
Tamim Chahal - Samir
Renée Dick - Thérèse
Hassan Farhat - Michel
Nada Ghosn - Bernadette
Sotigui Kouyate - Osmane
Carmen Lebbos - Najat
Myrna Maacaron - Souad
Paul Mattar - Le fou
Hassan Mrad - Marwan
Liliane Nemri - Maria
Bruno Todeschini - Antoine

Directors of photography
Ricardo Jacques Gale
Roby Breidy (dead in 2002)

Music
Ziad Rahbani

Production design
Sylvain Chauvelot

Costumes
Souraya Bagdadi

Sound
Nicolas Cantin
Dominique Gaboriau

Editor
Juliette Weifling

Producers
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Frédéric Sichier

Executive producer
Jean-Pierre Saire

Associate producer
Anne Fleischl

Coproduced by
Euripide Productions
Leil Productions
Arte France Cinéma
France 2 Cinéma
Le Studio Canal +
Havas Images
Cinémanufacture
Vega Film

With
Canal +,
Centre National de la Cinématographie,
Radiotelevizione Svizzera,
And the Cinemamonteverità foundation.