Tideline

Tideline (2004)

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His father's untimely death sends young Wahab into an intense turmoil. Shaken by family feuds and what he discovers, he decides to bury his father in his native Lebanon. But the idea will prove no less trying in a country scarred by war where a new corpse is one too many.

Date of release
2004-09-13
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama
Director
Wajdi Mouawad

Casting

Interesting facts

Tideline is a Canadian-French drama film, directed by Wajdi Mouawad and released in 2004. The film stars Steve Laplante as Wahab, a Lebanese Canadian man whose estranged father dies, leading Wahab to undertake a trip to Lebanon to bury his father's body in his home country, only to run into complications that send him wandering around the country and reveal aspects of his father's life that he never knew.

Production

The original play was the winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 2000 Governor General's Awards. It was the first part of a thematically related, but not strictly sequential, trilogy of plays about characters of Middle Eastern origins confronting family secrets, followed by Scorched (Incendies) and Forests (Forêts).

The second play formed the basis for the 2010 film Incendies, which was directed by Denis Villeneuve; Forests has not been adapted as a film at all as of 2023.

The portions of the film set in Lebanon were actually filmed principally in Albania.

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