47 seconds of helplessness, pain, uncertainty, despair and debilitation.

A father's plight felt over 47 seconds, encapsulating these emotions, symbolizes the Lebanese people's reality of living through a debilitating electricity crisis for 47 years that has crippled the healthcare system.

The daughter - heard breathing faintly - is a symbol for Lebanon. Her condition deteriorates exponentially, with every electricity cut.

The father - a symbol for Lebanese people - screams and pleads for help, with every electricity cut, but no one responds. No one’s coming to Lebanon’s aid in the electricity crisis.

The environment's design transports viewers to a typical hospital in the most afflicted parts of Lebanon.

The lights and the colours add to the bleakness.

The camera movement is slow and tedious; almost haunting.

The film is shot in one straight take.

Amidst a despair-ridden soundscape comprising an original soundtrack, the father's cries escalate the situation's absolute hopelessness.

Lebanon's healthcare sector has suffered with 47 years of electricity cuts, culminating in a breaking point in 2022's healthcare crisis.

With its crippling energy crisis escalating in 2022, hospitals and essential health services were put under immense pressure, debilitated by lack of electricity.

With 22 hours of power cuts every day, patients, including children, were dying and suffering in Lebanese hospitals whose life-support machines and emergency treatment systems cannot rely on intermittent and sporadic power.

LOGI Energy wanted to challenge the Government to bring in reforms and transparency regarding electricity restoration plans.

We had to turn eyes and drive action for a petition demanding a change in the electricity reform plans.

But with lack of support from the Government and media, we appealed to global media and audiences instead, showing them what Lebanese have felt for 47 years through the agony of a father losing his daughter, over 47 seconds.

Orchestrating the environment, mood, sound and performance, to move audiences to feel what people in Lebanon have felt for 47 years, all within 47 seconds, was key to making it impactful.

The film was shot in ONE straight take, capturing the descent into despair in 47 seconds, in real-time.

The physical environment's design transports audiences to a hospital in Lebanon’s afflicted areas.

Tedious camera movement, cold lights and art design, add to the environment’s bleakness.

Technical precision, planning and practice, ensured the power on set cut on cue, over 47 seconds, in real-time, and the “father” performed in accordance with the power cuts.

From 45 screen-tests via online casting, instead of commercial actors, 2 unknown theatre actors were chosen.

Thorough rehearsals and importantly, enlisting a child counsellor helped the child actor be comfortable with the concept of ‘death’.

The soundtrack, codenamed “Descent”, with a haunting soundscape enhanced the visual experience.

Lebanon's healthcare sector was suffering from the electricity crisis.

Grappling with a crippling energy crisis was putting hospitals and essential services under immense pressure.

An outdated energy infrastructure and an over-reliance on private operators and fuel imports has impacted the people of Lebanon for the past 47 years with power cuts a daily reality.

Hospitals, with life-supporting and sustaining machines, cannot rely on intermittent power.

Patients lives have been at risk.

Dr. Anwar Shayya, an Oncologist, says, "People are literally dying everyday in hospitals in Lebanon, from avoidable matters."

Lebanese hospitals and patients deserved the right to power.

The right to power was their fundamental human right.

But that right was taken away from them because of the 47-year-long electricity and energy crisis.

This daylight robbery had crippled them.

This right to electricity being taken away from the Lebanese, became the inspiration behind the initiative's title, "The Right to Power".