Sylvie Ballyot’s "Green Line" Holds Theatrical Premiere at Zawya Cinema

Sylvie Ballyot’s "Green Line" is holding its theatrical release at Zawya Cinema, Cairo’s very own designated art-house cinema hotspot.

The film will be screening for a week, on the following days:

● Sat, Aug 2nd , 5:45pm

● Tue, Aug 5th, 7pm

"Green Line" follows Fida, a girl who grew up in war-torn Beirut hearing her grandmother's stories of the ‘red hell.’ 

The film’s clever use of miniatures to tell a dark story of a childhood ravaged by war speaks volumes. With the help of stop motion, Fida confronts the realities of war that haunted her childhood.

It received a MUBI Award as well as the Junior Jury Prize at the Locarno festival, Grand Prize of the Ismailia Festival in Egypt, and Atlas Distribution Award at Marrakech.

The film is written by Sylvie Ballyot and Fida Bizri, produced by Céline Loiseau, and animated by Nicolas Lemée alongside Ballyot herself.

A graduate of the Fémis Film School in Paris, Sylvie Ballyot directed several shorts and medium-length fiction films that explore love and family relationships, including "Alice", "Tel Père Telle Fille" selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2007— Moi Tout Seul, and the award-winning 2008 documentary  "Love and words are politics" that was shot in Yemen.

In addition to directing and co-writing  "Green Line" , Ballyot also lensed the film, alongside Béatrice Kordon, co-edited the film with Charlotte Tourrès, and composed the music, along with Luc Meilland.