Waves 98
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Director Ely Dagher Music director Matthew Wilcock Writer Ely Dagher Language Arabic | 7.8/10 IMDb Genre Animation, Short, Biography Screenplay Ely Dagher Duration Country Lebanon, Qatar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Elie Bassila Release date May 2015 (2015-05) Similar movies Munich , The Watch , Navy Seals , What We Do in the Shadows , Ken Park , Syriana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Waves '98 is a 2015 short animated film written and directed by Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ely Dagher. It was awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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Plot
Waves '98 tells the story of Omar, a high-school kid living in the northern suburb of Beirut in the late 1990s. Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's discovery lures him into the depths of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality that he eventually finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home. The film is a meditiation on Dagher's relationship to Beirut, his hometown, since he has left it for Brussels.
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Reception
Waves '98 is the first Lebanese film in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival since Maroun Baghdadi won the Jury Prize for Hors La Vie in 1991. The film was shortlisted as one of 8 from a list of 4550 short film submissions. The film was awarded the Palme d'Or by Abderrahmane Sissako, in a ceremony on May 24, 2015.
References
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