Fragments of a Nation is a poetic audiovisual journey through a Lebanese history that remains unresolved. Inspired by the text Yesterday’s Bullets… Today’s Silence by Alicia Tarraf Labaki, the film unfolds in five acts, tracing Beirut from the intimacy of pre-war life to the eruption of civil war, the inherited silence passed across generations, the collective rupture of the 2019 uprising, and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion.

Through fractured archival images, damaged film textures, and an intimate voiceover, the film explores how violence, fear, and memory are transmitted even to those who did not live the war. Positioned between mourning and resistance, Fragments of a Nation asks what it means to speak after catastrophe—and whether breaking silence can become an act of survival, dignity, and hope.

Based on the text by Alicia Tarraf Labaki: Yesterday’s Bullets… Today’s Silence

Fragments of a Nation is a poetic audiovisual journey through a Lebanese history that remains unresolved. Inspired by the text Yesterday’s Bullets… Today’s Silence by Alicia Tarraf Labaki, the film unfolds in five acts, tracing Beirut from the intimacy of pre-war life to the eruption of civil war, the inherited silence passed across generations, the collective rupture of the 2019 uprising, and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion.

Through fractured archival images, damaged film textures, and an intimate voiceover, the film explores how violence, fear, and memory are transmitted even to those who did not live the war. Positioned between mourning and resistance, Fragments of a Nation asks what it means to speak after catastrophe—and whether breaking silence can become an act of survival, dignity, and hope.

Based on the text by Alicia Tarraf Labaki: Yesterday’s Bullets… Today’s Silence