Levant

At the crossroads of old and new empires, Levant offers to cross the Bosphorus which connects the Black and Mediterranean seas, geographical border between East and West. Levant explores from East to West – from the Balkans to the Caucasus, from Ukraine to Iran, Iraq, Syria and beyond – the dilemmas of a vast region of confluences and cultural tensions where several theatres of war. Levant skirts the torments of the past inscribed in memory landscapes: ancient Greek cities on the Turkish coasts, churches Armenian graves abandoned around Mount Ararat, the tombs that line up Thousands of graves at the Srebrenica cemetery are traces of a history violent. It resurfaces: jihadists are ravaging Iraq and Syria, terrorize European capitals; Putin's Russia besieges Eastern borders of Europe. Past and contemporary torments give the story his voice and his rhythm, trace his route. Levant book of scenes which say the tension that precedes the action, the brutality of the fights, the relative lull. Between two fires, moments of daily life emerge, fields and wastelands, palaces and ruins, padlocked borders and passes, dead ends, confines, horizons. The story leaves room for the spontaneity of characters who enter the frame, to the disparity of their feelings and passions. Anodyne and modest adventures, small spaces, almost nothing gives to the story its theatrical dimension. Here violence and truce are at play, wandering, waiting, the fragile balance between harmony and discord.