DEAD DOG KALB SAKEN SARAH FRANCIS

  • LEBANON | FRANCE | QATAR | SAUDI ARABIA

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  • ARABIC

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  • 2025

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  • 92 mins

On a rainy night, Aida retreats to a secluded family house in the Lebanese mountains, seeking distance and clarity. Her quiet solitude is disrupted by the sudden arrival of her husband Walid, who has been living abroad for years and did not expect to find her there. Over the next four days, the couple is forced into an intimate reunion marked by silence, tension, and unresolved questions. As they cautiously circle each other, memories and resentments surface, revealing a marriage suspended between endurance and collapse, and raising the question of whether anything can still be saved.

ರಾತ್ರಿಯ ಮಳೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಐದಾ, ಏಕಾಂತ ಮತ್ತು ಮನಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟತೆಯನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕುತ್ತಾ ಲೆಬನಾನ್ ಪರ್ವತಗಳಲ್ಲಿರುವ ತನ್ನ ಕುಟುಂಬದ ನಿರ್ಜನ ಮನೆಗೆ ತೆರಳುತ್ತಾಳೆ. ಆದರೆ ವರ್ಷಗಳಿಂದ ವಿದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಅವಳ ಪತಿ ವಾಲಿದ್, ಐದಾ ಅಲ್ಲಿರುವ ನಿರೀಕ್ಷೆಯಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಹಠಾತ್ತಾಗಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಆಗಮಿಸಿದಾಗ ಅವಳ ಏಕಾಂತಕ್ಕೆ ಭಂಗವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಮುಂದಿನ ನಾಲ್ಕು ದಿನಗಳ ಕಾಲ, ಈ ದಂಪತಿಗಳು ಮೌನ, ಉದ್ವಿಗ್ನತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬಗೆಹರಿಯದ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿದ ಒಂದು ಅನಿವಾರ್ಯ ಭೇಟಿಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅವರು ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಎಚ್ಚರಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ವ್ಯವಹರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಂತೆ, ಹಳೆಯ ನೆನಪುಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಅಸಮಾಧಾನಗಳು ಹೊರಬರುತ್ತವೆ. ಇದು ಅವರ ವೈವಾಹಿಕ ಜೀವನವು ಸಹನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪತನದ ನಡುವೆ ತೂಗಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವುದನ್ನು ಬಿಂಬಿಸಿ, ಈ ಸಂಬಂಧದಲ್ಲಿ ಉಳಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಇನ್ನೇನಾದರೂ ಬಾಕಿ ಇದೆಯೇ? ಎಂಬ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಯನ್ನು ಹುಟ್ಟುಹಾಕುತ್ತದೆ.

Producer(s) or Production Company :

Lara Abou Saifan, Sarah Francis

Screenplay :

Sarah Francis

Director of Photography :

Mark Khalife

Editor :

Zeina Aboul Hosn

Music :

Rabih Gebeile

Sound :

Victor Bresse

Cast :

Chirine Karameh, Nida Wakim

Awards - Winner :

Cairo IFF (Best Arabic Film)

Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection :

IFF Rotterdam (World Premiere)

Sarah Francis is a filmmaker and visual artist who grew up and studied in Beirut, Lebanon. She works with sculpture, painting, installation, and digital photography, often blending these forms to create carefully staged scenes that explore the relationship between the artist and the viewer. Her first feature film, BIRDS OF SEPTEMBER (2013), premiered in the main competition at CPH: DOX and screened at major festivals and museums worldwide. Her second feature, AS ABOVE SO BELOW (2020), premiered at the Berlin IFF. DEAD DOG is her third feature film.

  1. 1. DJ AHMET
  2. 2. SENTIMENTAL VALUE
  3. 3. SOUND OF FALLING
  4. 4. MY FATHER'S SHADOW
  5. 5. NO OTHER CHOICE
  6. 6. WHERE THE WIND COMES FROM
  7. 7. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
  8. 8. RESURRECTION
  9. 9. A POET
  10. 10. MAGELLAN
  11. 11. SIRĀT
  12. 12. FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
  13. 13. THE MASTERMIND
  14. 14. LATE SHIFT
  15. 15. AMRUM
  16. 16. CASE 137
  17. 17. SKIN OF YOUTH
  18. 18. WE BELIEVE YOU
  19. 19. BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD
  20. 20. FATHER
  21. 21. MORTICIAN
  22. 22. TO THE VICTORY!
  23. 23. DREAMS
  24. 24. THE BLUE TRAIL
  25. 25. MOTHERTONGUE
  26. 26. A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD
  27. 27. FIUME O MORTE!
  28. 28. THE THINGS YOU KILL
  29. 29. YOUNG MOTHERS
  30. 30. THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO
  31. 31. CATANE
  32. 32. PROMISED SKY
  33. 33. CHRISTY
  34. 34. I ONLY REST IN THE STORM
  35. 35. THE PUPIL
  36. 36. COMANDANTE FRITZ
  37. 37. IMPATIENCE OF THE HEART
  38. 38. STRAIGHT CIRCLE
  39. 39. DRY LEAF
  40. 40. A USEFUL GHOST
  41. 41. SLEEPLESS CITY
  42. 42. OUTCRY
  43. 43. MY UNCLE JENS
  44. 44. THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
  45. 45. KONTINENTAL '25
  46. 46. JANINE MOVES TO THE COUNTRY
  47. 47. DIVINE COMEDY
  48. 48. A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT
  49. 49. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOSEF MENGELE
  50. 50. GOD WILL NOT HELP
  51. 51. TÊTES BRÛLÉES
  52. 52. REEDLAND
  53. 53. DEAD DOG
  54. 54. NINO
  55. 55. BEFORE THE BODY
  56. 56. LOVE ME TENDER
  57. 57. THE LAST AMBASSADOR
  58. 58. CARAVAN
  59. 59. WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU
  60. 60. AS WE BREATHE
  61. 61. TALES OF THE WOUNDED LAND
  62. 62. HALF MOON
  63. 63. THE PORTUGUESE HOUSE
  64. 64. FOLLIES
  65. 65. THE DEVIL SMOKES
  66. 66. VANILLA
  67. 67. BLUE HERON
  68. 68. KOKORAS
  69. 69. DRAGONFLY
  70. 70. KIKA
  71. 71. MAYSOON
  72. 72. BEACHCOMBER
  73. 73. WIND, TALK TO ME
  74. 74. BROKEN VOICES
  75. 75. RENOVATION
  76. 76. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
  77. 77. HUMAN RESOURCE
  78. 78. NOMAD SHADOW
  79. 79. THE DREAMED ONES
  80. 80. TWO PROSECUTORS
  81. 81. CLOISTERED SISTER
  82. 82. ORENDA
  83. 83. DE TAL PALO
  84. 84. MILITANTROPOS
  85. 85. RIVERSTONE
  86. 86. OSLO: A TAIL OF PROMISE
  87. 87. MAHIMA
  88. 88. BELÉN