Lebanon is a completely f**ed up country and has been for many years, with local cinema, either in the form of features or documentaries, presenting the fact in the most eloquent fashion. Myriam El Hajj also moves in the same path, through a docudrama implementing the form of three video diaries, which narrates four tumultuous years in the recent history of the nation, starting with 2018.
Diaries from Lebanon is screening at Berlin International Film Festival
The three arcs revolve around three individuals and two events. Joumana is a feminist writer, poet and activist, who, in 2018 ran in the elections for the Lebanese parliament, eventually managing to be elected. In the Lebanese system, however, such events are not to be tolerated, with her being fraudulently ousted the very next day, leaving her supporters furious, with her arc showing how she fared after the whole endeavor. Perla Joe is also a...
Diaries from Lebanon is screening at Berlin International Film Festival
The three arcs revolve around three individuals and two events. Joumana is a feminist writer, poet and activist, who, in 2018 ran in the elections for the Lebanese parliament, eventually managing to be elected. In the Lebanese system, however, such events are not to be tolerated, with her being fraudulently ousted the very next day, leaving her supporters furious, with her arc showing how she fared after the whole endeavor. Perla Joe is also a...
- 3/3/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Arab distributor Mad Solutions has taken world sales on Lebanese director Myriam El-Hajj’s timely feature documentary “Diaries From Lebanon” ahead of its upcoming premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.
El-Hajj’s new doc features three characters from different generations who are looking for their place in Lebanon, a country “haunted by a past that continues to pollute the present,” as the doc’s synopsis puts it.
The protagonists, named Georges, Joumana and Perla Joe, have different perspectives on whether to change Lebanon’s dismal national narrative “through war, politics or revolution,” the description continues.
But as Lebanon’s ongoing mayhem prompts personal quests for meaning and survival, they are all confronted with the same basic question: “Is it possible to sustain our dream in the face of a crumbling world around us?”
El-Hajj’s previous doc “A Time to Rest” examined Lebanon’s Civil War and premiered at...
El-Hajj’s new doc features three characters from different generations who are looking for their place in Lebanon, a country “haunted by a past that continues to pollute the present,” as the doc’s synopsis puts it.
The protagonists, named Georges, Joumana and Perla Joe, have different perspectives on whether to change Lebanon’s dismal national narrative “through war, politics or revolution,” the description continues.
But as Lebanon’s ongoing mayhem prompts personal quests for meaning and survival, they are all confronted with the same basic question: “Is it possible to sustain our dream in the face of a crumbling world around us?”
El-Hajj’s previous doc “A Time to Rest” examined Lebanon’s Civil War and premiered at...
- 1/26/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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