Broken Keys

The film is set in a Syrian town struck by war. What happens takes place in 2013. The town is under the control of an armed fundamentalist group. The group has banned music. Cigarettes and alcohol are banned too. Karim is a pianist living there. One day one of the group’s men smashes his piano. Karim decides to rebuild it. For that he goes after the missing parts. The search takes him outside the town. Meanwhile he is making another plan. He wants to cross to Europe and work in music. Both efforts carry great risk. Tarek Yaacoub and Rola Baksmati take the leads in Jimmy Keyrouz’s Arabic-language film of 2022.