Cynthia Zaven

Most Popular Cynthia Zaven Trailers

Total trailers found: 10

The Watchman Trailer (2024)

25 January 2024

Halil spends his nights in a watchtower waiting for an enemy that doesn’t arrive, until suddenly strange lights appear on the horizon.

The Valley Trailer (2014)

04 September 2014

After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility.

The Last Man Trailer (2006)

19 September 2006

Each morning Beirut awakens to a new murder seemingly committed by a serial killer, with victims found emptied of their blood.

My Armenian Phantoms Trailer (2025)

16 February 2025

A tender posthumous letter to Tamara’s father, who was a film actor in Soviet Armenia. She already watched him on TV as a child before later establishing herself as a filmmaker.

My Love Awaits Me By the Sea Trailer (2013)

07 September 2013

Hasan Hourani, a Palestinian poet and illustrator, died aged 29 in Jaffa while trying to rescue his nephew from the sea.

Beirut Hold'em Trailer (2022)

28 July 2022

Beirut Hold’em depicts the life of Ziko, a 40-year old ex-con and petty gambler, and his three boyhood friends, in a seedy, lower-middle class district of Beirut.

Yellow Bus Trailer (2024)

16 May 2024

In the sweltering Arabian Gulf heat Ananda’s dreams of a better life than the one she left behind in India are shattered after her child is forgotten on a school bus.

Village of Women Trailer (2019)

29 October 2019

Only women, children and old people live in this Armenian village, while the men work in Russia. A life with a rhythm of its own, an independent daily life marked nonetheless by exile.

La route du Nord Trailer (2008)

14 August 2008

Karim, in his forties, who has lived in France since his teenage years, returns to Lebanon to transfer the remains of his father, who died during the war, from Beirut to his native village.

Palestine: A Revised Narrative Trailer (2024)

28 April 2024

In this singular piece, sound designer Rana Eid and music composer Cynthia Zaven reflect on the British imperial narrative of this turning point in history by placing it within the context of a century of events that followed the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of nation-states in the Middle East.