This video essay approaches war as an inherited condition rather than a historical event. Moving across generations, the work traces how displacement, fear, and vigilance are transmitted through stories, gestures, and everyday rituals. By interweaving intimate family archives with collective images of destruction and contemporary traces of absence, the film reveals how war persists as memory, habit, and anticipation. It asks whether violence must be passed on or whether it can be interrupted, reimagined, and refused by those who inherit it.
Based on the text by Joseph Khoury: A Lebanese Forged by War
