Movies: François Yazbek

A daughter writes a letter for her father, who she lost after he was sentenced on charges of blasphemy....

A visit to a cosmetic-surgery clinic and the discovery of a lump in his testicle and an abscess in his mouth confront filmmaker Selim Mourad with transience and decay in this unashamedly navel-gazing film essay. ‘Selim from Beirut’ is the last in a l...