LE DERNIER PIANO
Jimmy Keyrouz
DIMANCHE 18 JUIN - 18h00 / GrütliLiban / Fiction / 110 min
2021 / VO Arabe ST FR
Karim, un pianiste de talent, a l’opportunité de passer une audition à Vienne. La guerre en Syrie et les restrictions imposées bouleversent ses projets et la survie devient un enjeu de tous les jours. Son piano constitue alors sa seule chance pour s’enfuir de cet enfer. Lorsque ce dernier est détruit par l’Etat Islamique, Karim n’a plus qu’une idée en tête, trouver les pièces pour réparer son instrument.
Bio du réalisateur/trice :
Jimmy Keyrouz
Jimmy Keyrouz is an award-winning film director/writer. His latest film Broken Keys made the Cannes Film Festival 2020 Official Selection, won the 2022 Murex d’Or, and was Lebanon’s official candidate for the 2021 Oscars. Broken Keys’ screenplay was selected among 6 from over 1,000 submissions for The Black List 2019 Annual Feature Lab. The original music was composed by Oscarwinner Gabriel Yared and the film is currently represented by WME.
Previously, Jimmy wrote and directed Nocturne in Black, which won the Gold Medal at the 43rd Student Academy Awards - in a year where the Academy received a record number of 1,749 films - the BAFTA and Directors Guild of America Student Film Awards, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Oscars in the Live-Action Shorts category.
Mixing his love of adventures with environmental consciousness, Jimmy enjoys scuba diving, road biking, skiing, rock climbing, playing the piano, and participates in numerous forest planting initiatives. He fluently speaks English, French, Arabic, and some Spanish. Jimmy completed his M.F.A. in Screenwriting/Directing at Columbia
University, New York, in 2016.