The kiss, le baiser, il bacio - the simple puckering of human lips can demonstrate the full spectrum of human sensation - love, agony, care, desire, friendship, rejection, murder/death and inspiration.

THE KISS is the story of one hundred and seventy individuals who kiss. They are young and old, alive and dead, male and female, rich and poor, Chinese and Italian, French and English, Inuit and Indian, Christians and Jews, Greek Orthodox and Hindi, lovers and rapists, mothers and fathers, winners and loosers, actors and prostitutes, teachers and students, garbage collectors and business executives.

A tender kiss is shared by two lovers on an isolated public park bench. The scene is romantic and picturesque until the couple argues suddenly and walks home fighting. The woman leaves the man and heads in a different direction. She arrives, crying, at a friend's house. He has guests. He takes her in his arms and consoles her. The guests decide to leave them alone and kiss the man farewell. The guests are our new protagonists. The kiss has now reached them and they carry it to the character(s) of the next scene.

The kiss will travel from a synagogue to a mafioso's kiss of death from prostitutes to a christening from arrivals at the airport to departures at the train station from Reagen-Gorbachov on television to a movie set from a wedding to lust in the alleyways from an abstraction in a museum to a beggar's life.

The original musical score accentuates the Tangoesque rythm of the events. Sometimes comic, often tragic and mostly intriguing, THE KISS is a study of emotions. Entertaining and inspiring it will make you laugh, cry and feel romantic.

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STARRING:
BASHAR SHBIB, MA¦A NADON CHBIB, GABOR ZSIGOVICS, ROSS PARTRIDGE, BOBO VIAN, TONIA LYNN, ALEXANDRA WOODWARD, SUSAN EYTON JONES, MARK HOUGHTON, IONA BRIDLE

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:
PIERRE LATOUR

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER:
ANDREW MAKAREWICZ

CAMERA/D. O. P./PHOTOGRAPHY:
KARINE ZERBŠ

ASSISTANT CAMERA:
GEOFF DEADMAN, STEPHEN DE OLIVIERA

ART DIRECTOR:
CLAUDINE REBBOH

MUSIC:
TITI REBO, IVAN ZAVADA

COSTUMES:
ZYX PRODUCTIONS

EDITOR:
ROB SWARTZ, ROBERT YATES

SCREENPLAY:
THŠR»SE BRODEUR, BASHAR SHBIB

PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY:
BASHAR SHBIB

With the financial participation of:
SODEC (SociÈtÈ de dÈveloppement des entreprises culturelles),
CrÈdit d'ImpÙts Province du QuÈbec and
Canadian Tax Credit