Hundred faces for a single day

by Christian Ghazi

Lebanon
1969
63 min
Arabic / with French subtitles
Feature film
Color

Hors compétition 2024

Official synopsis

Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention, Ghazi combined documentary and abstract sequences with a series of discontinuous plot linesto organize an attack on the bourgeois decadence of Beirut’s political milieu.

Biography and Filmography

Christian Ghazi was born in Antioch, Turkey, in 1934, to a French mother and Lebanese father. He grew up in Syria, before settling in Lebanon. He worked as a journalist and philosophy teacher, wrote poetry, directed plays and composed music. A true jack-of-all-trades who eventually found that cinema was the best way for him to express himself.

 

1971 : Resistance, why ? - Christian Ghazi - Director

1969 : Cent visages pour un seul jour - Christian Ghazi - Director

by Christian Ghazi

Christian Ghazi was born in Antioch, Turkey, in 1934, to a French mother and Lebanese father. He grew up in Syria, before settling in Lebanon. He worked as a journalist and philosophy teacher, wrote poetry, directed plays and composed music. A true jack-of-all-trades who eventually found that cinema was the best way for him to express himself.

 

1971 : Resistance, why ? - Christian Ghazi - Director

1969 : Cent visages pour un seul jour - Christian Ghazi - Director