“Some days I’m optimistic. Other days I’m very pessimistic,” Abbout Productions’ Myriam Sassine mused from the midst of Lebanon’s COVID-19 lockdown. “It’s gone on very long and there are limits to what we can do while working from home. We need to shoot. We need to do our postproduction. We need to launch our films and distribute them. We now have time to develop, but at one point we will ...