Dirty Difficult Dangerous

Dirty Difficult Dangerous is a 2022 film directed by Wissam Charaf which premiered in the 2022 Venice Days, a sidebar of the 79th Venice International Film Festival, and won the 2022 Europa Cinemas Label award.

Cast and Crew

The film stars actor Ziad Jallad as a Syrian refugee named Ahmed and actress Clara Couturet as an Ethiopian named Medhia. The two were chosen in part because they were attractive despite the characters’ marginal roles in society. In an interview with Arab News, Charaf said, “I wanted to assert that because you’re poor or a refugee doesn’t mean you’re necessarily going to be ugly or. I got the most handsome refugee and the most beautiful housemaid in the world.”
It was produced by Charlotte Vincent and Katia Khazak, with Marco Valerio Fusco, Micaela Fusco and Pierre Saraf as co-producers.

Plot

Set in Beirut, the film tells the story of a Syrian refugee named Ahmed and an Ethiopian woman named Mehdia who works as a housemaid who are in love. Mehdia tries to free herself from her employers, an elderly couple, while Ahmed struggles to survive by selling scrap metal. Ahmed is affected by a mysterious disease.