Mounia Akl‘s Venice/Toronto preemed Costa Brava, Lebanon has found a home with the Kino Lorber folks. THR reports that the distrib have already set the film for a launch next month – on July 15th. We had the chance to interview the filmmaker in Toronto.
Aki’s intergenerational family story focuses on the free-spirited Badri clan, who, in an effort to escape the toxic pollution and social unrest of Beirut, build a mini-utopia off the grid. But the world intervenes when the Lebanese government begins construction on a garbage landfill right outside their fence. The country’s trash and corruption is literally being brought to their doorstep. The Badris are forced to either stay true to their ideals and live outside the system or leave their idyllic mountain home and engage with the reality they fled.
