1983

Written and directed by Hayat Najm

Produced by Christine Noël

1983 is a poetic, intuitive, and experimental film depicting a woman’s traumatic experience of war. Powerful, symbolic, and evanescent imagery is used to explore the themes of resistance, sublimation, and metamorphosis that are integral to her identity as she moves among several layers of memory.

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