2024 | France, Lebanon, Qatar   | Animation

Green Line

  • Arabic, French - 150 mins
  • Director | Sylvie Ballyot
  • Writer | Sylvie Ballyot, Fida Bizri
  • Producer | Céline Loiseau, Luc Camilli, Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Céline Loiseau

STATUS: Post-Production

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“In my country, they call me “The Cat”, because like cat I died seven times, and seven times I came back to life”. The film opens on a tale with animated figurines in miniature settings reconstructing Fida’s childhood during the war. It then shifts to a documentary style with a series of real confrontations between Fida and ex-militiamen manipulating the small figurines. The miniature material becomes a bridge between different subjective stories, infusing the collective history with individual details. The experience of this confrontational space turns out to be cathartic. The narrative moves around between realities and temporalities, proceeding from Fida’s childhood in the eye of the storm during the war in the eighties until today.

War Memories Documentary Childhood Trauma Tale War Confrontations Figurines Material Miniature Experience
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