Ziad Kalthoum
Ziad Kalthoum was born in Homs, in 1981, and graduated after studies in film. He has worked as an assistant director on several films, series and television programmes, including Mohammad Malas’s Ladder to Damascus. In 2011, he directed his first short documentary, Oh, My Heart. Kalthoum’s first feature-length documentary The Immortal Sergeant (2013), deals with the schizophrenic daily life and encounters he experiences between his mandatory military service in the Syrian Army and his role as assistant director during the shooting of Ladder to Damascus. ‘The Immortal Sergeant’ was screened at the Locarno Film Festival in 2014 and the Fribourg International Film Festival in 2015. Ziad Kalthoum deserted the Syrian army in 2013 and took refuge in Beirut where he started working on his film Taste of Cement (2017).
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Taste of Cement
In Beirut, Syrian construction workers are building a skyscraper while at the same time their own houses at home are being shelled. The Lebanese war is over but the Syrian one still rages on. The workers are locked in the building site. They are not allowed to leave it after 7p.m. The Lebanese government has imposed night-time curfews on the refugees. The only contact with the outside world for...
Taste of Cement
In Beirut, Syrian construction workers are building a skyscraper while at the same time their own houses at home are being shelled. The Lebanese war is over but the Syrian one still rages on. The workers are locked in the building site. They are not allowed to leave it after 7p.m. The Lebanese government has imposed night-time curfews on the refugees. The only contact with the outside world for...
