Lebanon’s autumn film festival calendar commences in Akkar this year with the first edition of REEF - Environment and Cinema Days, launching in Qobeiyat on Sept. 6. The event had a soft launch in 2018, when its edition zero played out with an evening of shorts and a day enjoying the location’s still-unspoiled environment. REEF’s hard launch echoes the soft but with more ambition. It mingles an afternoon and evening ...