The Trees الأشجار

Directed by Ramzi Bashour

Type of Project: Comedy
Length: 22:00
Producer: Ramzi Bashour
Editor: Hasan Hadi
Cinematographer: Alfonso Herrera-Salcedo
Sound Designers: Mohamad Khreizat

Bashir attends his father's funeral in rural Lebanon only to discover a pathogen infecting the trees across his village. A dark-comedy about tradition, grief, and the environment.

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Ramzi Bashour (1988) is a Syrian-American filmmaker and multimedia artist who grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. He’s worked in kitchens, on farms, in journalism, as a teacher, sound designer and videographer. In 2020 he completed his MFA at the Tisch School of Arts and currently resides in New York where he edits by day and sleeps by night.