Isabelle Mecattaf

An unruly young mother and her two kids spend a hot summer day illicitly making ends meet on the Atlantic City boardwalk.

August 4, 2020, the port of Beirut explodes. Four years later, Lélia, 17, prepares to leave to study in the United States and has to leave everything behind, her girlfriend, her country, and her family. As an upcoming war looms over their every moment, we spend six days in Beirut with four women caught in the whirlwind of life, between joy and melancholy, traditions and the hope of renewal.

A lonely American faces unrequited love on a farm commune in the south of France.

A rich woman picks up a male prostitute and asks for more than he usually sells

A Woman with No Name retrieves her husband's bones from a gang of mythical Chinese Cowboys.

Determined to have her first kiss, a young teenage girl defies her tumultuous world in search of normalcy.

Turning the camera on her family and surroundings in Beirut during the recent Israeli bombings of the city, Isabelle Mecattaf captures the jarring coexistence of regular life with the relentless shock and grief of living on the periphery of war.

In this astutely played and beautifully shot drama by Isabelle Mecattaf, a look at an anxious day in a wealthy Beirut household becomes a moving rumination on the pain felt by parents of grown children seeking better lives far from home.