Programmed to accompany our exhibition Subversion, this season of contemporary cinema from Lebanon highlights some of the most critically acclaimed films to come out of the Arab world.
Produced by a generation of filmmakers whose memories of Lebanon’s bloody civil war remain omnipresent, these recent examples illustrate one of the Arab world’s most emblematic nations, from a transitional stage of post-traumatic crisis through to post-revolutionary catharsis.
Supported by The University of Manchester and British Academy International Partnerships with the curatorial collaboration of the Arab Film Festival, Liverpool
Previously in this season
Cinema
The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni
This haunting and beautifully formed documentary is a meditation of the life of Egyptian screen legend Soad Hosni, who starred in eighty-two feature films between…
Cinema
Stray Bullet
This politically charged family melodrama is set in a northern suburb of Beirut at the end of summer in 1976, just as Lebanon’s long civil…
Cinema
Okay, Enough, Goodbye
In the small, tightly-knit city of Tripoli, Lebanon, where family bonds run deep, a forty-year-old man still lives with his elderly mother and has given…