At the climax of the Lebanese civil war, two snipers entrusted to guard a stronghold build a relationship as everything around them falls apart. This is the story of two men - two soldiers, lovers, people. And about their time together in a confined space, where for the first time in their lives, they found freedom.
When Chady, 32 years-old, recognizes the assassin of his father, he decides to get revenge with his “Happy Pig” costume.
Open Wound concerns itself with rape as a weapon of war. Hiam Abbass portrays a woman who is subjected to multiple rape and torture. When she is finally freed from captivity, the medical staff at a bombed-out hospital attend to her injuries. There, she discovers she is pregnant and that it is too late to terminate the pregnancy. Her newfound freedom has been an illusion. Her body is still, now even more than before, in the power of the men with guns, the child’s fathers. For this woman, this is war, inside her, in her own womb. The film begins the night she gives birth.
