Under Alice's sky

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Under the sky of Alice is a French film directed by Chloé Mazlo, whose first feature film. The film was selected in several festivals, especially the edition of the Week of Criticism at the Cannes Film Festival in 2020.

He was awarded the "Best First French Film" award for the year 2021 by the French Film Criticism Union. He was also named to the 27th edition of the Enlightenment of the International Press in the Best Premier Film category in 2021.

Synopsis
In the 1950s Alice left Switzerland for Lebanon. She will fall madly in love with Joseph. The latter is an astrophysicist dreaming of sending the first Lebanese into space. Alice will soon find her place in Joseph's family. However, after a few years of dolce vita, this paradise is challenged by war.

Data sheet

Original French title: Under Alice's sky
English Titles: Under Alice's Sky and Skies of Lebanon
Directed by: Chloé Mazlo
Scenario: Chloé Mazlo and Yacine Badday
Photograph by Hélène Louvart
Decors : Aurélien Maillé
Costumes : Alexia Crisp-Jones
Sound : François Boudet (sound engineer), Damien Boitel (sound mount), Xavier Thieulin (mixing)
Mounting : Clémence Carré
Music : Bachar Mar-Khalifé
Production : Frédéric Niedermayer
Production companies: Moby Dick Films; with the support of CNC; with the participation of Canal+, Ciné+, Arte France; in association with Indéfilms 8 and Cinémage 14
Distribution company : Ad Vitam
Format: colour — 1.85:1 — sound 5.1
Country of production:
Original language: French
Genre: dramatic comedy
Duration: 90 minutes
Release Dates:
France: (festival du film francophone d'Angoulême) (national release)

Distribution
Alba Rohrwacher : Alice Kamar
Wajdi Mouawad: Joseph Kamar
Isabelle Zighondi : Mona Kamar
Mariah Tannoury : Mimi
Jade Breidi : Tony
Odette Makhlouf : Amal
Hany Tamba : Georges
Charbel Kamel : Walid
Ziad Jallad : Selim
Darina Al Joundi : Rima
Nadine Naous : the cedar
Robert Mazlo: Archbishop
John Chelhot : Fady
Greta Zighondi : Hoda
Chloe Zighondi : Nada
Cécile Mubarak : Raymonde
Ishac Diwan: TV journalist
Joëlle Abu Shabke: the teacher on television

Around the film

Writing
Under Alice's sky is freely inspired by the family story of director Chloé Mazlo. Alice's character is thus based on her grandmother, a Swiss officer in Beirut as a nurse in the 1950s. The script was written with Yacine Badday (coswriter of two previous films of the director) and partly developed in different writing residences (Groupe Ouest, Moulin d'Andé). The film was produced by Frédéric Niedermayer of Moby Dick Films.

The main historical context of the story is the first two years of the Lebanon War in the Ashrafieh neighbourhood of Beirut. Several conflict events come