Avoids the trap of today’s plethora of short films that merely do tv reports designed for audiences and take them to film festivals. Samir uses 16mm film and the tone is openly experimental (note the audio-visual overlapping,superimposing the audio from one scene over the image from the previous one (L-cut) or vice versa (J-cut),creating smooth transitions).Is he making plot-driven cinema?Obviously, scenes of defence and resilience in the face of the two-year civil war of 1975 are privileged, but with an emphasis on Israeli economic interests in the occupation of Kufr Shuba in southern Lebanon