Movies about Lebanon and Beirut
Every year, many movies are subject to censorship by Lebanese authorities. Because of this practice of the Lebanese authorities, The Beirut International Film Festival is organizing a festival of banned films, where 5 films will be showing. The festival will start on June 22nd and end on June 26th. During this festival, movies that were banned by the Lebanese...
When we think of cinema, halfway between the title and the names of actors, is the name of the director that captures our attention mostly. Yet without forgetting the vital and indispensable role of the producer in question, the later recalls the old story of film financing. Meet George Shoucair, Abbout productions associate. The production company’s first feature was...
After berrying the memory of a father, mother and sister murdered, a ubiquitous nightmare of which a whole family refuses to talk. And if this family was not alone to bear in silence the memory of a massacre? And what if it were good to revive the years of the war to try to understand what happened, to stop...
Lebanese theatre director Zeina Daccache staged her adaptation of Reginald Rose’s 12 Angry Men in Beirut’s toughest prison, with rapturous results for many of those involved: international press, heightened self-esteem for some of the prisoners, and even reduced sentences for some. But that she was able to turn the experience into the elegant, quietly explosive 12 Angry Lebanese: The...
Director: Elie Khalife, Alexandre Monnier Cast: Siegfried Terpoorten, Zeina Daccache, Alexandra Kahwagi, Dana, Rita Ibrahim Production Company: Abbout Productions Producer: Georges Schoucair Writer: Elie Khalife Genre: Comedy; Romance Certification: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) Additional Details: Runtime: 1h05min Yanoosak tells the story of Rudi, an ordinary Swiss German living in Zurich, who decides one day to reside in Beirut in...
For ShopInBeirut The movie “Chatti ya Dini” or “Here comes the rain” of the Lebanese director Bahij Hojeij is competing with 15 other Arabic and international movies for the “Back Pearl”, of the fourth Abu Dhabi Film Festival taking place from the 14th till 23rd of October. “Que vienne la pluie” is the second film directed by Bahij Hojeij...
Release Date: September 2010 (Lebanon) Genre: Drama Musical Fantasy Romance Starring: Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez, Joumana Haddad, Raia Haidar, Jalal Khoury, Nasri Sayegh Screenplay By: Jocelyn Saab & Joumana Haddad Directed By: Jocelyn Saab Produced By: Jocelyn Saab Plot Outline: BEIRUT 2010. A writer, who regrets not keeping his promise to his dressmaker father to follow in his footsteps,designs, cuts...
Beirut’s Arab film festival, Ayam Beirut Cinemaiyya, promises a taste of someplace else for every palate By Jim Quilty BEIRUT: Europeans, it seems, are not averse to going to the cinema to watch European films, regardless of what language the characters speak. Folks in Latin America apparently like to watch movies made in Spanish and Portuguese. Naturally, English speakers,...
In its sixth edition, The Cinema Days of Beirut is presenting a selection of Arab and Lebanese films, most of which are shown for the first time to the Lebanese audience. Some of these films have been screened in acclaimed international festivals including the Cannes, Dubai, Berlin and Venice Film Festivals. Date: The 16th of September, 2010 Place: Metropolis...
Venice Film Festival contender unites Palestinian writer and Jewish director Colleen Barry Associated Press VENICE: The latest movie by Julian Schnabel couldn’t have been more timely. “Miral” chronicles decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the rarely seen perspective of Palestinian women. The film, dedicated by the director to everyone on both sides who wants peace, made its world premier...
