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The Disaster Cannot Be Contained كان يمكن أن لا أكون

The Disaster Cannot Be Contained كان يمكن أن لا أكون

Diana Al-Halabi | Lebanon, Netherlands | 2022 | 26' |

RTM

| IFFR 2023

Disaster struck Beirut in 2020: the city was damaged by the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history, resulting in hundreds of victims. Filmmaker Diana Al-Halabi has a love of ports and has worked in the port of Beirut in the past. She draws a poetic parallel between the harbour of Rotterdam, where she was when she heard about the explosion, and that of Beirut. The blast hit Beirut at its core, but the stories reach much further.

– Christiaan Boesenach

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