Carole Abboud and Rabih Mroue in Terra Incognita.
You’ve been making films for more than 25 years now. How did your relationship with cinema and images begin?I'm not one of those people who wanted to make films when I was very young. My ambitions were more to be the local Che Guevara or a football player! My connection to cinema, not directing but to the medium itself, started in prewar Lebanon. Before 1975, Beirut was an intellectually and culturally vibrant city with a great diversity of films. It wasn’t just thanks to film clubs and cultural centers but also places like the Clemenceau cinema. My passion for cinema gradually became clearer in Paris, where I came to take my baccalaureate since it wasn’t possible in Lebanon due to the Civil War. It was in the first months of 1975. I fell in love with it: Paris was very different then, full of energy, and it offered a staggering...
You’ve been making films for more than 25 years now. How did your relationship with cinema and images begin?I'm not one of those people who wanted to make films when I was very young. My ambitions were more to be the local Che Guevara or a football player! My connection to cinema, not directing but to the medium itself, started in prewar Lebanon. Before 1975, Beirut was an intellectually and culturally vibrant city with a great diversity of films. It wasn’t just thanks to film clubs and cultural centers but also places like the Clemenceau cinema. My passion for cinema gradually became clearer in Paris, where I came to take my baccalaureate since it wasn’t possible in Lebanon due to the Civil War. It was in the first months of 1975. I fell in love with it: Paris was very different then, full of energy, and it offered a...
