Absurdist political comedy is not often a genre you see in short films, but writer-director Cyril Aris's short does a remarkable job of encapsulating a wide-ranging political situation within one event and pushing its premise to the most extreme end
  "Providing the biggest number of hearty belly laughs of any film on this list, Cyril Aris’  The President’s Visit  concerns a small Lebanese fishing village that’s whipped into a frenzy when a local soap maker lets it slip that the coun
  "The President’s Visit  is a comedy through-and-through, a farcical look at a populace intent on impressing the powerful by any means necessary, including hoarding bath soaps." -   DEREK JACOBS , Cinema Axis
"The President's Visit" wins the Muhr Jury Prize at the 14th Dubai International Film Festival
The President's Visit @TIFF
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