The Sea Ahead

1h 55m
Drama
3.9

A young woman makes her way back home to her parents’ house in the middle of the night leaving a bad experience behind. Haunting pressures to fit back into the family dynamics as well as revealing details of her life abroad weigh heavy on her. Feeling cornered, her anxieties resurface, leading her to find solace in another part of her Beirut life that she had forsaken. A life that is for her as familiar and foreign now as it ever was.

Cast

Manal Issa
Jana
Roger Azar
Adam
Yara Abou Haidar
Mona (Jana's Mother)
Rabih El Zaher
Wissam (Jana's Father)
Fadi Abi Samra
Walid (Jana's Uncle)

Crew

Ely Dagher
Director, Writer, Editor
Léa Masson
Editor
Shadi Chaaban
Director of Photography
Arnaud Dommerc
Producer
Georges Schoucair
Co-Producer
Michael B. Clark
Co-Producer
Alex Turtletaub
Co-Producer
Benoît Roland
Co-Producer
Sabine Sabbagh
Production Design
Lara Mae Khamis
Costume Design
Nader Sidani
Hairstylist
Diala Chaaban
Makeup Artist
Rana Eid
Sound Designer
Philippe Charbonnel
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rawad Hobeika
Sound Mixer
Joh Dagher
Music

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