Broken Keys Review: A Musician Defies ISIS in Lebanon s Oscar Contender Broken Keys Review: A Musician Defies ISIS in Lebanon s Oscar Contender
Jimmy Keyrouz combines real-life crisis and potent emotion in the Oscar-submitted expansion of his Student Academy Award-winning short.
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Director: Jimmy Keyrouz
With: Tarek Yaacoub, Rola Beksmati, Julian Farhat, Mounir Maasri, Ibrahim El Kurdi, Adel Karam, Sara Abi Kanaan, Gabriel Yammine.
Running time: Running time: 110 MIN.
Courtesy of Ezekiel Film
An endangered musician in a Syrian town controlled by ISIS must sell his beloved piano in order to escape the country in the gripping drama “Broken Keys.” It marks the feature debut of Columbia U.-trained, Lebanese writer-director Jimmy Keyrouz. Inspired by real events, the feature is an expansion of his 2016 Student Academy Award-winning short “Nocturne in Black.” Now boasting a score by Keyrouz’s famous compatriot Gabriel Yar