RIOT: 3 Movements

synopsis

 Filmed in three slowly intensifying acts amidst a mob of angry protestors on the streets of Lebanon, and making use of a shaky handheld camera, the film captures the turbulent street protests against the local government’s passive approach to a long-standing garbage crisis in the summer of 2015, when both cities and countryside were polluted with trash. 

biography

Beirut-born Rania Stephan (1960) studied film in Australia and in France, where she lived for twenty years. Her documentaries take a personal view of political events in her native Lebanon.

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