With camera in hand, Rayan Meldan captures a Lebanon divided yet brimming with acts of solidarity
Presented on April 30 in Crissier, Switzerland, "The Resilience of the Cedar" gives a voice to displaced people and questions the dominant narratives about Lebanon.
Rayan Meldan filming in Lebanon, camera in hand, meeting those who tell the story of a country caught between divisions and surges of solidarity. (Photo provided by the director)
This is the sadly ordinary story of a Lebanese couple who come together in exile between France and Lebanon. A story of a connection to their homeland that is hard to push to the background, and which is passed on to the next generation, who occasionally come to Lebanon to explore those strange roots that provoke as much love as they do sorrow. This is the story of Rayan Meldan, born in Switzerland to this couple and who visited Lebanon several times with his parents. Enough times for his curiosity to be piqued and for him to want to explore this country riddled with paradoxes.Filming to understandRayan is passionate about current events and visuals. A young man with an unconventional background, he has hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This genetic connective tissue disorder, defined by generalized joint hypermobility, joint...
This is the sadly ordinary story of a Lebanese couple who come together in exile between France and Lebanon. A story of a connection to their homeland that is hard to push to the background, and which is passed on to the next generation, who occasionally come to Lebanon to explore those strange roots that provoke as much love as they do sorrow. This is the story of Rayan Meldan, born in Switzerland to this couple and who visited Lebanon several times with his parents. Enough times for his curiosity to be piqued and for him to want to explore this country riddled with paradoxes.Filming to understandRayan is passionate about current events and visuals. A young man with an unconventional background, he has hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This genetic connective tissue disorder, defined by generalized joint hypermobility, joint...
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