Submarine

Directed by Mounia Akl · Starring Daad Aasli, Gladys Abou Sleiman, Adel Chahine, Rached el Mas · 2016

As Lebanon's 2015 garbage crisis closes in and her town is evacuated, Hala, a wild child in a woman's body, refuses to leave, clinging to whatever remains of home.

A haunting, Cannes-selected portrait of stubborn attachment to home amid a very real environmental catastrophe.

Under the imminent threat of Lebanon’s 2015 garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.

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