Here I AmHere You Are (2017)

Eccomi Eccoti unfolds as a virtual road trip navigating between Italy and Lebanon Conditioned to live in a longdistance relationship with his partner because of strict European visa regulations the director patches together the shared moments in an attempt to create a possible daytoday reality for their couple With a lyrical ambient soundscape set atop a dreamy atmospheric visual style that oscillates between still photography and moving images the film explores what it means to be gay in contemporary Beirut and existential discomfort that blocks one from reaching a sense of completeness Does such incompleteness have to do in particular with being gay Or is it related to a grander malaise endemic to the human condition