“If we want to get better we have to be more criticizing and try to change things”. Waves ’98 is a short animated film written and directed by Ely Dagher. It is the only animation movie to be nominated for the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of Omar, a high-school kid living in the suburbs of Beirut in the late 1990s, struggling with his disillusionment with his social bubble. The film is a meditation on Dagher’s relationship with Beirut, his hometown, since he traveled to Brussels.

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