The Lebanese author, director, and producer Mohamed Soueid has chosen 15 AFAC-supported fiction and documentary movies to be screened on the Aflamuna streaming platform throughout Might.
Soueid’s choice for this five-week program goals to showcase movies from totally different genres, and themes to mirror on the variety of the works supported by the Arab Fund for Arts and Tradition (AFAC) for the final 15 years.
Listed below are the 4 Lebanese movies that might be screened this month:
Erased, ___Ascent of the Invisible, by Ghassan Halwani
Written and directed by Ghassan Halwani, Erased, ___Ascent of the Invisible is an essay-documentary revolving across the 1000’s of people that had disappeared throughout the Lebanese Civil Warfare.
74, The Reconstitution of a Battle, by Rania and Raed Rafei
Between March and April 1974, college students on the American College of Beirut (AUB) occupied the college’s workplaces for 37 days to protest in opposition to the tutoring improve.
Quick ahead to 2011, throughout the Arab Spring, the 2 filmmakers Rania and Raed Rafei determined to rethink the current occasions.
With the protests in 1974 as their place to begin, the filmmakers filmed a documentary on the necessary problems with revolution and democracy.
Waves’ 98, by Ely Dagher
Disillusioned together with his life within the suburbs of Beirut, Omar began discovering the depth of the town.
Influenced by one thing so shut but so removed from him, he loses monitor and finds himself struggling to really feel at residence.
Tadmor, by Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim
Amid the Syrian rebellion in opposition to the regime in 2011, a gaggle of former Lebanese detainees determine to interrupt their silence and voice out the horrific occasions they endure imprisoned in Tadmor, one of many Assad regime’s most dreadful prisons.
They determine to publicly categorical the torture and humiliation they skilled, as a approach to overcome their darkish years.
Lokman Slim was a Lebanese political activist, writer, and political commentator, who produced acclaimed movies.
He co-founded Umam Documentation and Analysis, archiving historic and cultural supplies associated to Lebanon’s political and social historical past, with a selected curiosity within the Lebanese Civil Warfare and its results on the nation.
He was assassinated on February 4th, 2021 for his freedom of opinion. Justice stays unserved thus far.
For extra about this excellent persona, learn: Who Was Lokman Slim.
To look at the Lebanese movies, go to Aflamuna On-line.
