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Lebanese Producer Georges Schoucair Talks Stressful But Productive 2024 Wrapping Two Movies & Launching A Cinema Against Backdrop Of War

Mixing social drama, the romantic comedy follows an unlikely couple over three decades as they fall in love against the odds and then confront the challenges of parenthood against the backdrop of conflict and crisis-ridden Beirut, amid disputes over whether they should stay or leave the country. It is one of two films Schoucair got into production this year, alongside Nadim Tabet’s In This Darkness I See You, a ghost story about a young Syrian deserter, who finds work on a construction site near a Lebanese village where he is confronted with hostility from the locals. Filming on In This Darkness I See You began in the mountains south of Beirut in the spring 2024, but mid-way through the shoot, an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus in neighboring Syria, killed several military officials, including top Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammed Reza Zahedi.

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