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.

We were creating a film in the deepest throes of the crisis.

There was no budget for a high-end production.

Even if we had high budgets, spending a lot would be extremely irresponsible, given people’s suffering in Lebanon.

The overall budget was $10,000.

Now, many on the team are Lebanese from Lebanon or care about friends in Lebanon.

So, everyone banded together for this as a labour of love, pro bono.

The only costs incurred were for blue-collared crew, for catering, and for the set design.

The production budget, therefore, brought down considerably.

Yet, we achieved producing a quality film that travelled, was recognized and made an impact.

Agency: $0 (pro bono)

Production: $0 (pro bono)

Editing and grading: $0 (pro bono)

Director: $0 (pro bono)

DoP: $0 (pro bono)

Crew (including catering): $6,000

Set Art: $4,000

Actors: $0 (pro bono)

Composer: $0 (pro bono)

Sound design: $0 (pro bono)

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".