Skies of Lebanon
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In the 1950s, Alice leaves her native Switzerland for Lebanon. There she meets Joseph, an astrophysicist with whom she falls in love. But the shadow of war soon looms over their happiness.
Chloé Mazlo
Chloé Mazlo is a French artist, director, screenwriter and actress, born on October 15, 1983 in Boulogne-Billancourt. Born into a family of jewelers from Lebanon, she studied graphic design at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg. She then specialized in the making of animated films, at the crossroads of different techniques. Whether they borrow the territory of autobiography, literary adaptation, or her family history, her films are distinguished by their strongly allegorical pictorial language. His short films have been selected in numerous French and international festivals, broadcast on television (France 2, Canal +) and awarded several prizes. In 2015, Les Petits Cailloux won the César for best animated short. In 2020, she directed her first feature film, Sous le ciel d'Alice, with Alba Rohrwacher and Wajdi Mouawad in the lead roles, selected at the 59th Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival 20203 and nominated in the Best First Film category at the 27th edition of the Lumières de la Presse Internationale.
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