Motherland: On Bassem Breche’s Riverbed
Salma: It's unlike you to drop by. Thurayya: I'm not dropping by, I got divorced. I'm done with men. Salma and Thurayya are the lead characters in Bassem Breche's film Riverbed (2022), a portrait of a solitary woman and her daughter negotiating their fraught relationship in the absence of a father. In his feature debut, which premieres in Lebanon on October 4 to close the 28th European Film Festival, Breche returns to primordial bonds - to home, to the village, to nature - and to what remains after all has been said, after damage has been done. Masterfully rendered by Carol Abboud
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