Intending to smuggle drugs across the borders, Ziad, a small-time Lebanese drug-dealer slyly manipulates public opinion with the help of an underrated filmmaker. All of the filmmaking work is designed to ensure that their deception raises as few suspicions as possible, Ziad insists, though Bou Chaaya and Saadeh make comic hay out of continually raising the shoot’s stakes and professionalism.

2015 | Lebanon | Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya | 107 min