The Valley Of Tears
Produced in 2012

Film Information
Festival Edition 2013 - Edition 13
Section Panorama
Director Maryanne Zéhil
Country Canada
Duration 92 mins
Language French
Producer Maryanne Zéhil
Screenplay Maryanne Zéhil
Cast Nathalie Coupal, Joseph Antaki, Nathalie Mallette, Janine Sutto, Sophie Cadieux
Genre Drama
Synopsis
Marie (Nathalie Coupal), a Montreal publisher specializing in memoirs by war survivors, receives an anonymous document, the condensed story of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie begins a search for the authorâs identity. She enlists the help of Joseph (Joseph Antaki), a Lebanese man who is painting her office. A strange relationship develops between the pair, who are from very different backgrounds. Then Joseph suddenly disappears. Torn apart by her difficult mission, Marie starts a journey into the past. In a small Lebanese village, in the heart of a bloodstained culture whose unspoken issues are infinitely enigmatic, Marie will eventually find the key to every mystery.