In a journey through the images of Lebanese mass media in recent years, the contradictory portrait of a country that lives between violence and pop culture is forged.
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It's All In Lebanon. Small Country, big contradictions
"Certain videos serve a national cause. But is the cause about running soldiers and crying people? A cause is more about living your life" says one of the interviewees of this documentary, a phrase that summarizes the form and content of the film.
Conceived as a kind of mixed essay made of archive footage and interviews, the film resignifies images shown by the Lebanese mass media to sketch a portrait of a country full of contrasts. In this way, the screens are like a mirror of society.
Among a variety of images, in the film we see the moments before the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, an emotional propaganda video of Hezbollah or a commercial spot of the most iconic model of the country set in Ancient Rome.