A journey through Beirut's devastated neighbourhoods and some villages in southern Lebanon. The ordinary stories of ordinary people. Women, children and men face the challenge of remaking their lives in the midst of the devastation. 34 days of bombing by Israel have left indelible marks. Hundreds of families have lost their loved ones, a million displaced people return to their devastated houses. The Lebanese people wake from the nightmare full of rage and sorrow. Bombs are heavy, peace has no weight.
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The emergence of Hezbollah as a party dates back to 1982 when a group of islamic believers considered the eminence of establishing a certain formula to face the weakness prevailing in the struggle against Israel and to achieve the goals of Islam. Since the very beginning, Hezbollah was directly linked to the Islamic struggle in Iran that had a direct impact on the party's lifepath. The party was constitutud form organizations and party affluents, both islamic and national, and from independent currents among youth. The aprty is religiously tied to the jurisprudent lider al Imam Khomeini first then to al-Imam al-Khamenei.
Leaded/Unleaded documents the May 2004 labour demonstrations in the poorest neighbourhoods of Beirut that were violently repressed by the army. There has been little focus on the perpetual economic crisis in Lebanon, where upwards of 40% of the country's population lives below the poverty line.
Beirut, July 2006. Israeli bombings strike the city. While Beirut is still on fire, the filmmaker starts a journey across his native land. The film is not a documentary - although the images are burningly real - but an essay. Using two complementary techniques, 16 mm film and HDV, the artist questions the deep foundations of the documentary genre. The eye of the cameras goes through a country in a state of terror, it records the immediate effects of war when it touches civilians.
UntitledA exploration of sexuality among gay men in Lebanon. Five characters talk about their sexuality, about commitments, about their relationship to their bodies, about their passions and love in a society where homosexuality is still punished with imprisonment. The video uses light to produce a white veil, rendering almost impossible character identification.
Video letters from Beirut to the World. July 21, 2006. Calling outside Lebanon, the bombings in 2006.
The filmmaker interrogates the population of the Bourj Barajneh refugee camp about the place where they would like to be buried, thus portraying the symbolism of Palestine and the imaginary of the Palestinian population of the Lebanese refugee camps.
UntitledFollowing the Israeli withdrawal from Ain el Mir in 1985, the village became the frontline. The Dagher family was displaced from their home, which was occupied by a radical resistant group for seven years. When the war ended in 1991, Ali Hashisho, a member of the Lebanese resistance stationed in the Dagher family house, wrote a letter to the Dagher's family justifying his occupation of their house, and welcoming them back home. He placed the letter inside an empty case of a B-10, 82 mm mortar, and buried it in the garden. In November 2002, Akram Zaatari headed to Ain el Mir to excavate Ali's letter.