Zenj Revolution (previously titled Ibn Battuta)

Algeria, Lebanon, France, Greece

Producers: Yacine Teguia, Ghassan Salhab, Frederic Lemaigre

Production Company: Neffa Films, Mirrors, Captures

Project Logline:

Ibn Battuta, an Algerian journalist, picks up the trail of long-forgotten uprisings in Iraq. His investigation first takes him to Beirut, a city that once embodied the hopes and struggles of all the Arab World.

Director's Quote:

The question that comes to mind: how conceivable is it to undertake a film with the intention of shooting ghost matter?