Fiasco(فياسكو)

Welcome to the complicated, dysfunctional, yet loving family dynamics between a single mother and her two adult children in Lebanon. The film’s narrator and director is Nicolas Khoury, who, through 15 years of home movies, investigates the loneliness that overcame the family when the father passed away. Now, his sister is married and has moved away from home and Nicolas is left alone with his mother and her expectations for ‘the correct life’, which he cannot fulfil. He is questioning his own sexuality, and he does not fit into the boxes that Lebanese society offers him. His mother fears that he will be a failure. The refreshing thing about his cinematic rebellion is the candid humour and the deep love that we clearly sense between all the family members. Nicolas’s loneliness is shared by both his mother and his sister, and it might ironically be the thing that binds them all together.