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Cinema - Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami : "In the Middle East, filmmakers also have to deal with censorship" Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami was this year’s president of the jury at the Beirut International Film Festival. iloubnan.info met with the award winning director, writer and producer who shared his thought concerning film production in the...Full Story>> |
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Cinema - Lebanese Film festival - Gilbert Abou Zeid, the masculine presence
By Virginie Vilar
His movie was one of the ten selected short films at the Lebanese Film festival. Gilbert Abou Zeid, only 23 years old, triggered all senses through “Présence feminine” (Feminin Presence), indeed a stirring film that tributes...Full Story>> |
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Cinema - War veteran tackles Israel's collective amnesia' Israel's Ari Folman, in Cannes to premiere his fiercely anti-war animation "Waltz With Bashir," says his country is awash with ex-soldiers like himself who have repressed horrific memories of their time in the Israeli army.Full Story>> |
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Cinema - Lebanon and the cinemas in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s
By Jasmina Najjar
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Lebanese were considered to be the foremost cinemagoers in the world. They used to be so drawn to movie theatres because there weren’t many options as far as entertainment was concerned (TV etc…)...Full Story>> |
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Cinema - Philippe Aractingi: ’I wanted to present war differently’ Philippe Aractingi tells David Gritten how he shot ’Under the Bombs’ in the middle of a real conflict.Full Story>> |
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Cinema - The Lebanese movie theater reconstitutes its identity
By Robert Eid
Since the war officially ended in 1990, Lebanese cinema has been trying to look for its own identity, to identify itself and to build its own territory. Through this inexperienced but promising prospective, several young film-makers are...Full Story>> |
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