Category: Lebanese Cinema
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Rana Eid’s Panoptic: Acoustic Echoes and Resonant Soundscapes
“Eid’s personal plight, composed as an epistolary address to her deceased father, is entangled with more general symptoms of public paralysis,” writes Saadi Nikro
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Sleepless Nights: Confessing Without The Confession
“We hear many of these stories in the documentary, stories that exemplify Lebanon’s extraordinary tendency to defy whatever would seem to be in its own self-interest”
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The New Battles of Lebanese Cinema
“Clichés have thick skin. During a projection of my short film last year in Brussels, a woman came to me to tell me that she likes my film but that there wasn’t ‘enough war'”.
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In Conversation with Mounia Akl, Director of ‘Submarine’
In conversation with the director of ‘Submarine’ (2016), Mounia Akl
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Conversation with Ely Dagher, Director of ‘Waves ’98’
Conversation with the Palme D’Or-winning director of ‘Waves ’98’, Ely Dagher
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In Conversation with Ely Dagher, Director of ‘Waves ’98’
In conversation with the Palme D’Or-winning director of ‘Waves ’98’, Ely Dagher
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Notes on Waves ’98
Waves ’98 is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating films from postwar Lebanon so far. Moving, elegant and multi-layered, it manages to portray both Omar’s lived experience as well as showing Beirut the current monstrosity that it is.
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The Ghosts of Lebanon’s Present
“Conflicting powers in Lebanon attempting to monopolize truth have created an environment in which “truth” cannot be determined by any recognizable social tool.”
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Rafiq Ali Ahmad, 1992. Suspended Dreams
“What About The Destruction Within Me?”. Suspended Dreams (أحلام معلقة), Mai Masri & Jean Khalil Chamoun
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Heritages: A Review
Heritages is the story of Philippe Aractingi and his Franco-Lebanese family as they trace back their own family history and compare, contrast it with the history of Lebanon and the whole region.