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Cinema Wednesdays - Hélène Lavoyer

At around twelve, Zain runs away from home after his father and mother agree to give their eleven-year-old daughter, Sahar, to their landlord. But the streets through which the «little man» wanders are nothing, nothing like those we walk here in Switzerland. Firstly, because these are the streets of Beirut (Lebanon), not those of Berne, Biel or Lausanne. The streets of Beirut are made up of low-roofed buildings, with fabric or metal doors padlocked with chains, and on the doorsteps of which stand the neighbors, the comrades in misery.