‘Taste of Cement’ Is an Impressionistic Portrait of Syrian Workers in Exile

Camden International Film Festival

Ziad Kalthoum’s cinema soars above Beirut to capture the uncanny experience of absence.

Many documentary filmmakers find their most compelling artistic truth in the “sense of place.” Richard Leacock talked about the “feeling of being there” as a governing principle of documentary, part of a tradition linking Robert Flahe…