Flour Flour - طحين، طحين

Role: Head of Video, Editor, Animator

2018 marks the one hundred year commemoration of a devastating famine that decimated most of Greater Lebanon’s population during World War I. Today, that war is often referred to in the region as المجاعة حرب : the war of the famine. This tragic chapter remains imprinted in Lebanese consciousness as stories of black bread, murderous Ottoman pachas, cannibalism, and crop-hungry locusts. In spite of its instrumental role in the formation of modern Lebanon, the famine remains an outcast from modern discourse, taking up no more than two pages in today’s high school textbooks. With a quirky tone, and a wide archive of facts and references, this documentary uncovers and unpacks the forgotten historical chapters of Lebanon’s 1915 to 1917 Famine. In 15 minutes, we explore the stories and testaments that were left out of the books. In demystifying fables, uncovering patterns, and seeing the other side of things, Megaphone explores a forgotten era, hoping to understand what happened, who’s responsible for it, and why it matters.

Megaphone’s First Documentary.