International Satan’s Day
Raed Yassin / Lebanon / 2025 / World Premiere / 17 min
Bubbling sulphur pools and a melancholy poem in a contrasting montage of image and text, where a tragic (anti)hero speaks to us from the edge of the world.
The camera scans a landscape of bubbling, smoking pools of sulphur as if the gates of hell had opened underground. In a poem told through subtitles, the tragic narrator initiates us into his situation, like a mythological (anti)hero who has woken up to a really bad day. Raed Yassin’s ‘International Satan’s Day’ is a film that, with diabolical humor and sincere melancholy, gives new meaning to nature’s romantic motifs: ‘I fall broken like hope / and remain as such / a king of remorse and prince of wisdom’.