This weekend a new short film, The Peace That Was Before, is premiering in Beirut at the Lebanese Outdoor Film Festival. The film follows two young freeriders, Mikhailo from Ukraine and Alex from Russia, who meet to escape the memories of war and disappear for one day in the mountains.
The Peace That Was Before is directed by Paris-based Roudy Doumit and Munich-based Florian Handschuh. I wrote the script, inspired by reading French and Lebanese poetry from the 1920s. The narration is from the perspective of the mountain. Lea Pietrosante of the Aegean Film Festival wrote, the "script is strong, poetic and beautifully crafted."
The film's world premiere takes place at Metropolis Cinema on Sunday, September 21st at 8:30 pm. It will also be screened at other film festivals. It was filmed off-piste in the Alps, on the border between France and Italy. The directors skied behind the protagonists (who are Olympic-level skiers) on rough off-piste terrain, causing one of them to injure his back. (He's now recovered.) It's an adventurous short piece of poetry, meant to question war and identity.
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