Tripoli, Quiet

10m • Fiction • 2009

Only a few hours into his shift, a cab driver in Tripoli, Lebanon finds a lone boy sitting in the backseat of his car. The boy’s peculiar silence forces the cabbie to deal with his most unique passenger yet.

Programmer's Note: This humorous short involving an ill-tempered taxi driver, an old woman and a mischievous child, takes us on stroll through Lebanon’s second largest city and plants the seeds for Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia’s first feature.