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Taste of Cement

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Original title: Taste of Cement
Year: 2017
Running time: 85 min.
Country: Lebanon
Director: Ziad Kalthoum
Screenwriter: Ziad Kalthoum, Ansgar Frerich, Talal Khoury
Cast: Documentary, Self: Tia Alkerdi, Yara Ibrahim
Music: Sebastian Tesch
Cinematography: Talal Khoury
Producer: Co-production Lebanon-Germany-Syria-Qatar-United Arab Emirates;
Basis Berlin Filmproduktion, Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts
Genre: Documentary | Immigration
Synopsis: In Beirut, Syrian construction workers are building a skyscraper while at the same time their own houses at home are being shelled. The workers are locked in the building site. They are not allowed to leave it after 7 pm. The Lebanese government has imposed night-time curfews on the refugees. The only contact with the outside world for these Syrian workers is the hole through which they climb out in the morning to begin a new day of work. Cut off from their homeland, they gather at night around a small TV set to get the news from Syria. Tormented by anguish and anxiety, while suffering the deprivation of the most basic human and workers right, they keep hoping for a different life.

Awards: 2017: German Film Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

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Taste of Cement

2017

Ziad Kalthoum

7.0

(65)