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
Tickets ($6) here.
AWFF is proud to present its official selection of 2021 Asian Oscar and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language respectively. The Festival aims to promote all films through AWFF online screenings, panels, events and social media platforms, in order to assist the filmmakers in their campaign for award success.
C Section (Lebanon)
2nd screening of the film on January 7, 2021: https://awff-c-section-2.eventbrite.com
Date: December 30, 2020
Time: Once you get your ticket, you can watch it anytime you want during this time frame.
Where: Asiania
Note: The screening is for US only