Director Lara Saba spoke out The movie “A Crossroads” About the scenes of the work’s participation in the Red Sea International Film Festival in its second session, and she said during her interview with Al-Youm Al-Sabea TV on the sidelines of her attendance at the festival: “All the crises that occurred, the economic conditions, and Covid 19, this was all a challenge for all of us, because cinema is resistance, because we were also emerging of revolution.”
And she continued: “We began to think in a different way, which is how to resist all this, so we thought of resisting all this. We are making a film in which we talk about love and sweet nature, and all these circumstances made us stronger and made us make the film, because we wanted sweet Lebanon and love.”
She pointed out: “The film is supposed to be a romantic comedy film, where they meet in the monastery, and my goal was that the film shows more nature and the place in which we were filming and the energy that exists in it, and that it is strongly present, it is more than comedy, it is an invitation to a simpler place and to nature and to be closer to it.” .
The film was written by Josephine Habashi and directed by Lara Saba. The film deals with a light romantic comedy story that takes place in Lebanon, and the mountainous region of Wadi Qannoubine was chosen for its filming..
A group of Lebanese artists, led by Shadi Haddad, Ruba Zaarour, Julia Kassar, Betty Tuttle, Mirna Moukarzel, Cynthia Karam, Rifaat Tarabay, Charbel Ziada, and others, participate in the cast.