
The Trees
Comedy · Drama
Overview
A researcher in plant sciences returns home to his village in rural Lebanon to attend his father's funeral. During the three-day-long Christian Greek Orthdox memorial he discovers that a pathogen is infecting the trees across his village. A dark comedy about tradition, grief, and the environment.
Top Cast
Ghazaros Altonyan
Ghazaros Altonyan
Ghazaros Altonyan
Zaher Kais
Zaher Kais
Zaher Kais
Sassine Kawzali
Sassine Kawzali
Sassine Kawzali
Nadim Shartouny
Nadim Shartouny
Nadim Shartouny
Fadia Tannir
Fadia Tannir
Fadia Tannir
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