Blue Night
Fouad Alywan
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"A Lebanese author attempts to brush away the raging civil war outside by covering his entire home with blue paint and spending a night to remember with his wife and daughter…" |
Mabrouk Again
Hani Tamba
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In post-war Beirut, Hoda "re-makes" her wedding ceremony in order to please her mother who has no photograph of the event because it had happened during the war. |
Someday a Child (Yawman ma walad)
Marie-Rose Osta
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27-minute fiction about an eleven-year-old boy with telekinetic powers living with his elderly uncle in the ruins of the family home in a southern village under constant Israeli overflights. |
Taxi Driver
Elie Khalifeh, Alexandre Monier
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"Tarek is a cab driver in Beirut. When one day a customer wants Tarek to drive him to a loony-bin, the Oisellerie, it is the beginning of an adventure... " |
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs
Walid Raad
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Based on false documentaries, this film is an attempt to analyze the problems inherent to all historical, sociological and anthropological representations; particularly those relative to the Lebanese Civil War. |
Waves '98
Ely Dagher
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In post-war Beirut in 1998, a teenager from the suburbs crosses into a city that is both near and out of reach. Animation and live action combined. |
