And yet Charaf, 49, has vividly ploughed these ghastly experiences into his second feature, Dirty Difficult Dangerous, which opens the Venice Days strand of the prestigious Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday. “The Lebanese don’t like the immigrants, the Syrians don’t like the Ethiopians, and vice versa,” he says, speaking about Lebanon's demographic tensions. “What I was afraid of, what I didn’t want to do, was a social film,” says Charaf. Ironically, he first started scripting the movie in 2012 when he was covering the Venice film festival as a cameraman for ARTE. You have to represent suffering, but you also have to represent love.”Dirty Difficult Dangerous will have its premiere on Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival

Source: Ethiopian News September 01, 2022 05:11 UTC