Home Bitter Home

Collaboratively made by six directors, Home Bitter Home follows artists trying to reclaim their dreams in today’s Lebanon. In a city that keeps tightening around them, their intertwined stories reveal how deeply their survival and ambitions depend on others.

“In a while, I will start a small revolution in this dark room.” – A Small Revolution (Thawra Saghira) by Riyad Al-Saleh Al-Hussein

Home Bitter Home interweaves five fictional portraits directed by Ghina Abboud, Naim El Hajj, Aline Ouais, Salim Mrad, Jihad Saade and Marie-Rose Osta. Together, they map the fragile life of arts and culture in Lebanon amid ongoing instability. 

Each portrait follows an artist trying to reclaim themselves in a place that keeps tightening around them. A dancer searching for a recording of her father, a sound engineer troubled by a strange noise, a teacher trying to create community in a neighbourhood that ultimately pushes him out, a woman retreating into her father’s flat after becoming unemployed, and an actor moving between different roles while fighting to keep her dreams alive.

Their homes, studios and familiar streets offer little protection. Yet as their stories come together, it becomes clear that none of them can endure alone. They reach out to loved ones, neighbours and friends, and this interdependency becomes its own small revolution, a way to keep living and creating.

– Reman Sadani

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