Waynon (Void) is a Lebanese film that seems to be taking the world by storm. It was the first ever Lebanese film to be screened at the Yakutsk International Film Festival in the Republic of Sakha, Yakutia, Russia. Actress Diamand Abou Abboud won the best actress award at the Dakhla International Film Festival in Morocco. The movie won the Best Screenplay award at the Malmo Arab Film Festival in Sweden. Waynon (Void) also won the Jury Special Prize at the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries.
Waynon (Void) is interesting for more reasons than one. First off it’s “the result of a positive collaboration in filmmaking. The collective work of one writer, seven young talented directors, and the best actresses and actors in town .” Secondly, it’s about “a subject that will live as long as humanity is still alive.”
And that subject is coming to terms with heart wrenching uncertainty. Many disappeared in Lebanon, never to be heard of again. No one knows if these fathers, sons, husbands and brothers are alive or dead. And yet so many people with a family member who metaphorically disappeared into the void continue to ask “waynon?”- where are they?