The Secret Garden

Lebanese filmmaker Nour Ouayda embraces a captivating and necessary utopia, one of secret oases hidden among cities. Her dream becomes real in Beirut. In eight chapters, we are led through a space of legend and myth by Camelia and Nahla, our guides in this sublime discovery. With its radiant celluloid images and lyrical and immersive pacing, The Secret Garden offers another way of observing; it compels us to see those flashes of beauty all around us that we miss because of the horror, the speed and the noise. But if we look closely, utopia might be more real than we think. (JHE)