This video reflects on post–civil war Lebanon from the perspective of a generation born after the guns fell silent but never experienced an ending. Moving through fractured language, silence, and affective imagery, the work considers war not as a past event but as an unresolved structure embedded in speech, memory, and identity. By foregrounding inherited trauma, political amnesia, and the absence of accountability, the film approaches belonging as suspended caught between unfinished history and a future unable to begin. The work asks what it means to live in the aftermath of a war that was never truly confronted, and how silence itself becomes a form of transmission.
Based on the text by Jessie El Hage: We Left, But You Remained
