THE FOURTH WALL

 Director: DAVID OELHOFFEN

Time: 120’

Year of Production: 2024

Language: FRANSÎ

Subtitle: TIRKÎ-KURDÎ

 

*In collaboration with the French Cultural Center

 

Synopsis

 

He was born in Lebanon in1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.

Biography

 

David Oelhoffen was born in 1968. After working in the production, he realized in 1996 his first short film, The Wall, selected for the Césars in 1997 and which is awarded in different festivals. Then he follows a medium In My Absence (mention of the Jury Clermont-Ferrand 2002), and 3 other short films, including Sous Le Bleu, presented at the Venice Film Festival in 2004 and nominated for César in 2006. The same year, he realized his first feature film “Our Reunion”, presented at the Critics’ Week in Cannes in 2007. His second feature film, “Away from Men“, in 2014, was presented at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival. He is also co-screenwriter of “L’Affaire SK1” in 2014.