Through a closed study of the notorious, now derelict district of Karantina, Sector Zero uses Karantina’s history as a metaphor for Lebanon’s own troubled past, suggesting that by denying their traumas, the Lebanese people have entered a downward spiral into the abyss that is their own collective unconscious. The film is not so much a documentation as it is an exploration into the dark corners of modern Lebanon’s collective memory in an attempt to discover how much of who we are is based largely on that part of ourselves we have chosen to forget.
Nadim Mishlawi
Writer, Director
Directed by John Ford70%
Sherman's March67%
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Sidney70%
Above Majestic73%
Elstree 197661%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
The Captains63%
Finders Keepers65%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Night Will Fall76%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Public Speaking70%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
28 Up75%
Wick Is Pain74%
Fuck64%
Room 23761%
