Venice Award Winner Ahmad Ghossein on Absurdist Comedy ‘The Side Effects of Trusting Life’ and War in Lebanon: ‘People Want Topics From Us, Not Cinema’

Five years after his feature debut “All This Victory” took the Grand Prize and the audience award at Venice’s Critics’ Week, Lebanese filmmaker Ahmad Ghossein is gearing up to shoot his next film. The filmmaker’s sophomore effort, “The Side Effects of Trusting Life,” was selected as part of this year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Agora Crossroads […]
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