Country: Lebanon, Spain
Year: 2026
Duration: 70'
Dream of Another Summer tells the story of the encounter between a woman, Alicia, and a city, Beirut, in order to explore how the spaces we inhabit relate to us, and reflect on buildings’ destruction and preservation when being spaces of collective memory. This film is not only a portrait of Beirut, but also a cinematographic journey into the relationship of cities with life, progress and destruction. A reflection on the survival of a city over time.
Biography
film director
Irene Bartolomé
(Spain), a director, editor, and producer, lives in Beirut. She earned a bachelor’s degree in film editing from ECAM, the film school in Madrid; a master’s degree in documentary filmmaking from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona; and a master’s degree in film and audiovisual studies from Goldsmiths University in London. Between 2014 and 2015, she was also a fellow at the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn, New York. In 2023, she founded the production company Lemu Helu. Dream of Another Summer is her first feature film, preceded by the short films The Williamsburg Houses (2016), directed with visual artist Tessa Rex, and Lunch Time (2017).
FILMOGRAFIA
The Williamsburg Houses (co-regia Tessa Rex, cm, 2016), Lunch Time (cm, 2017), Dream of Another Summer (doc, 2026).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Irene Bartolomé. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pôl Seif. EDITING: Sandra Fatté, Irene Bartolomé. MUSIC: Kinda Hassan. SOUND: Philippe Ciompi. CAST: Sylvain Perdigon, Nesrine Khodr, Cecilia Bartolomé Pina, Gerard Ortín, May Kassem, Bassam Abou Diab. PRODUCTION: Lemu Helu Films, Colibrí Studio, The Attic Productions. CONTACT: Irene Bartolomé ireneb@posteo.net
