Metrograph

Filmed over the course of some three years on the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Lebanon, and Syria, a corner of the world that had descended into lawlessness and violence following the invasion of a US-led coalition and the subsequent emergence of ISIS as a regional power, Rosi’s lyrical, largely nocturnal film is a patient, contemplative, and deeply emotional study of unimaginable suffering and endurance. “Rosi has a way of sitting with people, sometimes close-up, more often from afar, and soaking in their lived experience and the pulse of landscapes shaped by brutal external forces… His melancholic documentary moves beyond a sense of perpetual aftermath by picking up threads of continuity in people’s resilience… [Rosi] excels at uncovering scenes of drama and emotion without leveraging them for sentimental impact.” —The New York Times

Distributor: NEON

Q&A with director Gianfranco Rosi moderated by writer and critic Nicolas Rapold on Sunday, June 21st