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The Trees

2021 · 23 min

A quiet, wry study of mourning and ritual, where absurdity and ecological unease creep in under the surface.

Directed by
Ramzi Bashour
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Ghazaros Altonyan, Zaher Kais, Sassine Kawzali
Overview
A researcher in plant sciences returns home to his village in rural Lebanon to attend his father's funeral. During the three-day-long Christian Greek Orthdox memorial he discovers that a pathogen is infecting the trees across his village. A dark comedy about tradition, grief, and the environment.

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Directed by
Ramzi Bashour
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Ghazaros Altonyan, Zaher Kais, Sassine Kawzali
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • environment
  • trauma
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour5
Realism8
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Ramzi Bashour
Written by
Ramzi Bashour
Starring
Ghazaros Altonyan, Zaher Kais, Sassine Kawzali, Nadim Shartouny, Fadia Tannir
Cinematography
Alfonso Herrera Salcedo
Runtime
23 min
Country
Lebanon
Languages
Arabic

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