Scent Of An Angel

At a glance

Scent Of An Angel, is a 2011 Lebanese movie, directed by Khalil Dreyfus Zaarour, and starring Sonia Eid, Anjad El Moallem, Fatima El Zayyat. with a runtime of 80 minutes.

Overview

Malaki — Scent of an Angel is a Lebanese documentary-drama that confronts the unhealed wounds of the Lebanese civil war through the eyes of six families whose loved ones were abducted and never returned. Blending real testimonial interviews with surrealist fictional sequences, the film maps the emotional terrain between desperate hope and devastating uncertainty. Each family carries the unbearable not-knowing — whether their missing member is alive or dead — retreating into dreams and imagined reunions as a way of surviving the unbearable. Deliberately apolitical, the film focuses on fractured emotional bonds and the human need to hold onto hope, making it a deeply moving portrait of loss and longing.

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