The One Man Village

Semaan is leading a quiet life on his farm in the small village of Ain al-Halazoun in the
Lebanese mountains. The hamlet was completely emptied and destroyed in combats during
the civil war in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. Today, many years after an official
reconciliation, its inhabitants, who are all from one family, regularly go back to the village to
cultivate their plots of land or visit their houses and always leave before sunset.
In his comforting and humorous film Simon El Habre observes the life in his quasi ghost
village and tries to reflect on the collective and individual memory in a country that seems to
live in a collective amnesia and is vulnerable to a new civil war.