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35MM FROM BEIRUT

It’s been a busy year for the Lebanese film industry, with 11 feature length movies released in cinemas. Two of those movies were screened at …

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NASRI ATALLAH

Most people have been at the festival for over a week, running around from meeting to meeting and networking, and basically trying to make the …

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COLINE HOUSSAIS

“Behind Me Olive Trees” is a rare testimony of a reality that has never been offered comprehensive coverage, yet exists: the dilemma faced by returning …

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MARILYN ZAKHOUR

Hady Zaccak’s Marcedes will be screened at the Marché du Film on May 23. The documentary explores 60 years of history seen through the Mercedes …

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MARILYN ZAKHOUR

The Semaine de la Critique is a parallel section of the Cannes film festival that has been running since 1962. Imagined by the French Union …

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35MM FROM BEIRUT

We caught up with award-wining Lebanese director Wafa’a Celine Halawi, who’s at the Cannes Film Festival looking for partners to develop her first feature film, …

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35MM FROM BEIRUT

In our second instalment on the history of Lebanese cinema, we take a look at the early seventies, in the run up to the tragic …

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35MM FROM BEIRUT

Title:
مكان يُعاد | A Place to Go
Running time:
5 min
Genre:
Fiction-Dark Comedy
Year of production:
2011
Cast:
Yasmina Hatem, Mounia Akl, Angelique Kazan, …

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35MM FROM BEIRUT

Most non-Lebanese people passing by our pavilion at this year’s Cannes film festival seem to think that Lebanese cinema is only a decade or so …

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35MM FROM BEIRUT

There’s always an immense feeling of guilt being far away when there’s something difficult happening back home. Sadly, being Lebanese, that is an emotion that …

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