Zeinab
Abducted during the Lebanese Civil War and now in his 50s, Ramez is finally a free man. But he returns to society deeply traumatized by the past.
Zozo's Mom
A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
Chimo's Mother
Lila tiene dieciséis años, ojos inocentes y belleza de ángel, así que cuando pregunta con vocecita suave: "¿Quieres mirar debajo de mi falda?", el efecto que causa es devastador: sensualidad con mayúsculas. Lila y su extraña tía acaban de mudarse a un barrio pobre de mayoría árabe. Conoce a Chimo, niño bonito, tranquilo y con talento literario y a Mouloud, ambos líderes de la banda local. Lila se dedica a jugar con Chimo, a aturdirlo con promesas vagas y lenguaje procaz. Mouloud entra también en el juego, más rudo que su amigo, menos manipulable que él.
Narrator
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) student brigade included leftist students from Lebanon who mobilized around the struggle for the liberation of Palestine in the early 1970s. With the departure of the PLO’s armed forces from Lebanon after the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982, the brigade was disbanded. Mohamed Soueid was part of the group, and as the Lebanese civil war ended, he decided to film them and revisit their shared sites of memory, drawing a raspy-voiced portrait of defeated militants infused with poetry and generously doused in alcohol.
Lebanese director Randa Chahal Sabbag spins this bleak war drama about the brutal absurdity of the urban warfare of Beirut during the 1980s. Opening with the shocking image of kittens being blown apart, the film loosely follows the travails of Bernadette (Nada Ghosn), a naïve country girl sent to the city as a maid for a mansion long since abandoned by the owners. There she meets Therese (Renee Dick), a veteran house cleaner who takes her under her wing. One day, while accompanying her friend to the cemetery, she meets a rakish Arab militiaman, and the two fall in love.
Riad Noueri - Tarek' father
Historia de dos adolescentes musulmanes, llamados Tarek y Omar, que durante la guerra del Líbano despiertan al amor y se enamoran de la misma muchacha, una cristiana llamada May. La violencia del entorno condicionará sus vidas y las de sus parientes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hala Noueri - Tarek's mother
Historia de dos adolescentes musulmanes, llamados Tarek y Omar, que durante la guerra del Líbano despiertan al amor y se enamoran de la misma muchacha, una cristiana llamada May. La violencia del entorno condicionará sus vidas y las de sus parientes. (FILMAFFINITY)
The story of the film within the Abu Asaad family revolves around the inheritance of three brothers in the city of Hama in central Syria, but severe disagreements arise between them over how to divide this inheritance.
The story of the film within the Abu Asaad family revolves around the inheritance of three brothers in the city of Hama in central Syria, but severe disagreements arise between them over how to divide this inheritance.
