The Trees
Bashir attends his father’s funeral in rural Lebanon only to discover a pathogen infecting the trees across his village. A dark comedy about tradition, grief, and the environment.
- USA, Lebanon
- 2020, 22 min
- Director: Ramzi Bashour
- Director of photography: Alfonso Herrera-Salcedo
- Editor: Hasan Hadi
- Screenplay: Ramzi Bashour
- Sound: Mohamad Khreizat
- Cast: Nadim Shartouny
- Art Director: Sara Saleh
- Producer: Ramzi Bashour
Ramzi Bashour
Ramzi Bashour is a Syrian-American filmmaker and multimedia artist who grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. He has worked in kitchens, on farms, in journalism, and as a teacher, sound designer, and videographer. He completed his MFA at the Tisch School of Arts in 2020 and currently resides in New York, where he edits by day and sleeps by night.