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The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ritman spoke to Jimmy Keyrouz, director of Broken Keys, and the film’s composer, Gabriel Yared, for a THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media. During the half-hour chat, the pair described how an Oscar-winning student short film morphed into a full-length feature — a Cannes 2020 selection and now Lebanon’s submission to the Academy Awards' international feature category —and attracted an Oscar-winning composer along the way.

Some people may be slow to go to cinemas as the pandemic eases, but here in Los Angeles, they’re certainly not sluggish to head to awards season events, and Netflix took over the old Amoeba Records space on Sunset Blvd Monday (aka The Lighthouse Artspace) for their very swanky, in-person concert Playlist event which touted a lineup of platinum composers and music supervisors working on their projects.

Alissa Simon Film CriticAn endangered musician in a Syrian town controlled by ISIS must sell his beloved piano in order to escape the country in the gripping drama “Broken Keys.” It marks the feature debut of Columbia U.-trained, Lebanese writer-director Jimmy Keyrouz.

Having scored around 100 films since his first venture into cinema with Jean-Luc Godard’s 1980 drama Sauve Qui Peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself), Gabriel Yared — who won both an Oscar and Grammy for 1996’s The English Patient, the first of four collaborations with the late Anthony Minghella — sits among today’s great movie composers.

Lise Pedersen One of several high-profile guests scheduled to attend the Lumière Festival in October, Oliver Stone will be screening a newly restored copy of 1989’s “Born on the Fourth of July” at its world premiere in the French city of Lyon.Other guests of honor include actor Viggo Mortensen, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (1998’s “Festen”), Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (“The Wonders” 2014; “Happy as Lazarro,” 2018) and Oscar winning composer Gabriel Yared.