A Perfect Day (Yawmoun akhar)
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
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A mother and son must decide whether to have her husband, missing for fifteen years, declared legally dead; one day in a Beirut where the disappeared still weigh on everyone. |
Civil War
Mohamad Soueid
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"A critique of Western representations of the Middle East, Arab Culture, and the Palestinian people." |
Civilisées
Randa Chahal Sabbag
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Randa Chahal Sabbag says about her film: "My film shows men in war, and above-all Libyans themselves, become more human." "It's the first time that someone said to the Lebanese: if you had not fought this war, not the Syrians nor the Israels ... It's our fault, if there had been 200 000 deaths and 600 000 wounded. The Lebanese are warriors in spirit, they love weapons. This is what I've shown, at the same time as the absurdity of this war." |
Daresalam
Georges Issa Coelo
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In villages, peasants and workers start a civil war to fight against a blood-thirsty and autocratic authority; each group end up creating their own rebellion throughout which 2 friends will gradually come against each other. |
El-Aassar (The Tornado)
Samir Habchi
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" . . a film about the Lebanese civil war on location, filmed with the help of the Lebanese government, The Tornado narrates the story of a young Lebanese student on a visit home from the Soviet Union. While initially alienated by the war, he quickly finds himself an active participant." |
Heaven Sent (Tombé du ciel)
Wissam Charaf
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Samir, a militiaman presumed dead, reappears twenty years later in the life of his younger brother, now a bodyguard, and must find his way in a city that changed without him. A deadpan comedy about the war's leftovers. |
Here Comes the Rain (Chatti ya dini)
Bahij Hojeij
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Ramez, kidnapped during the war, is suddenly released after twenty years and returns to a family and city that have learned to live without him. |
I Want to See (Je veux voir)
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
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Catherine Deneuve, playing herself, asks to see the damage of the 2006 war and is driven to the south by Rabih Mroué; a film on what images can and cannot show. |
In the Shadows of the City (Taif al-madina)
Jean Chamoun
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A boy from the south comes to Beirut, is drawn into a militia during the war and later searches for his kidnapped father; Chamoun mixes fiction with his own documentary footage from 1975 to the post-war years. |
La Maison Rose
Joana Hadji Thomas, Khalil Joreige
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Facing the ruins of a strange post-war period, the individual and collective struggles to regain memory; through the humorous account of the story of a group of Lebanese refugees who settled in a disused pink palace during the war and who have to fight against a promoter who wants to make a commercial center of it. |
Memory Box
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
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In Montreal, a teenager secretly opens a box of the notebooks, cassettes and photographs her mother sent from 1980s Beirut, and discovers her mother's war-time youth. |
Nos guerres imprudentes
Randa Chahal Sabbag
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Remembering Lebanon during its 20 years of war through the experience of the author's mother, sister and brother; Beirut's post-war Trauma throughout the "amnesia of reconstruction". |
The Insult (Qadiyya raqam 23)
Ziad Doueiri
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A quarrel over a drainpipe between Tony, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, becomes a national trial that reopens old massacres and the 1991 amnesty. |
To Whom It May Concern
Sabine Sursock
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"Waiting for news of their sons from the war front, two women see in the distance a man in black coming towards their terrace. Will he bring news from the front? . . Whose son is it this time?" |
Tramontane (Rabih)
Vatche Boulghourjian
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A young blind musician discovers, when he applies for a passport, that his identity papers are false, and crosses Lebanon in search of his origins, uncovering war-time silences. |
