An anonymous man recounts his failed attempt to write an apolitical love story in Beirut. As fact and fiction are delicately woven together, the fragments form a story of their own. A tale of defeat expands into a layered journey through the ways we gather information, interpret facts, and reshape history to satisfy our desires. 

A man’s attempt to write an apolitical love story ultimately fails. Yet that failure extends beyond personal frustration, opening onto larger questions about how we construct stories and understand history. The Story of Milk and Honey juxtaposes fragments of images, letters, songs, and records, exploring the process through which fact and fiction, memory and imagination become entangled.
Rather than moving toward a single, complete narrative, al-Sharif reveals how stories are assembled through fragments and gaps. The film shows that the information and images we collect are never neutral, and that the past is continually rewritten according to desire and perspective.
The Story of Milk and Honey does not attempt to recover a single truth. Instead, it dismantles the very act of storytelling, exposing how unstable the foundations of the histories and images we believe in can be.

• Screenplay Basma al-SHARIF
• Cinematography Basma al-SHARIF
• Edit Basma al-SHARIF
• Sound Mahmoud CHRIEH

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