نوّرت

Nawwart

You walked in, and the room remembered the light.

A satellite built so that the furthest places can be heard.

عقبال المية

‘Abal el miyye

To a hundred years, and to whoever is beside you for them.

A couple who did not know they were about to be filmed, invited to walk down a corridor.

صحتين

Sahtein

Health, twice over. Once for the body, once for the table.

A woman who cooks the way it was cooked in Marjayoun, in the south of Lebanon.

يعطيك العافية

Ya‘tik el ‘afye

May the work give back the strength it takes.

Louise, at work, in her own words.

دير بالك

Dir balak

Mind how you go. We say it smiling, because we know you won’t.

Walls the height of a man, and a man who does not go round them.

يسلمو إيديك

Yislamo ideik

Bless the hands that made it.

Each of them designs a shoe of their own, to a song made only from spoken words.

شدّ حيلك

Shidd heilak

Gather everything you have, and hold it tight.

The distance is not won in a day. It is won every morning he comes back.