InstituteFestivalProfessionals
EN/NL
Donate
Loading...
MyIDFA
The Perfect Picture
About IDFA
Archive
The Perfect Picture
IDFA 2020

The Perfect Picture

Hala El Kouch
Lebanon
2020
31 min
World Premiere
Festival history

Can a single traumatic event be the fatal blow that disrupts the notion of an ideal family? Lebanese filmmaker Hala El Kouch creates a therapy session setting to confront her parents about a traumatic event, and interrogates them over the course of five days. But the moment that “changed everything” for her seems to have made far less impact on her parents. The conversation takes an unexpected turn.

A stream of images, family videos, and photographs from the family album paint a picture of perfect domestic bliss. And during the reenactment, too, Hala’s parents behave in a loving and amiable way towards each other and their daughter. In an otherwise empty room that sometimes contains a sofa and sometimes chairs, the three of them amuse themselves by making faces at one another, combing each other’s hair, and sharing kisses.

Hala nonetheless maintains that this perfect picture has been tainted, and that she no longer trusts her parents. Every so often she bursts into tears. What is it precisely that makes that picture perfect? And has the happy family been irrevocably damaged by the incident, or is it Hala who caused the stir?

Credits
Director
Executive producer
    Nanor Baghdassarian
    Nanor Baghdassarian
Sound
    Nanor Baghdassarian
    Nanor Baghdassarian
Sound Design
    Nanor Baghdassarian
    Nanor Baghdassarian
Music
    Emir Diab
    Emir Diab

Videos

Images

0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9