IN SHORT

A war photographer by 16, a news director by his 20s, and a documentary and fiction film director whose work has toured the world and put the Lebanese film industry on the world  map by his early 30s, Philippe Aractingi is a self-taught movie director whose work explores and celebrates the multiple—often contradictory and difficult—aspects of the Lebanese experience. “Lebanon is a nation of abundance; water, generosity, folly and madness!”