Awatif Alzain

A documentary that is half fiction that follows the secrets behind the suicide of Belgium Director Chantal Akerman and French post nouvelle vague filmmaker Jean Eustache, where they both ended their life on the 5th day but in a different month, and 34 years apart. The film records conversations and confessions with award-winning filmmakers and actors from Beirut, Brussels and Paris as well as a very interesting afternoon with Jean Eustache's Son Boris who tells us everything.

Breakfast in Beirut, is the story of love found and love lost, told in past and present moments in time, flooded with moving heartbreaking memories of a group of people and their never ending love affair with a city, with Beirut, A film Filled with resistance, confrontations, dreams, secrets and personal confessions. Breakfast in Beirut combines illusion with reality, converging toward a parallel side of Beirut through the eyes of its inhabitants.

A time travel film incorporating truthful moments and confessions that takes us back to Beirut of the 80s, Palestine of the 50s, and dystopian Paris.