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The history of film in Lebanon goes back to the 1890s. [15] Two years after the Lumière Brothers publicly projected their first film in December 1895 (Paris, France), they began sending traveling representatives to tour different countries to show their movies. One of the cities that they visited was Lebanon's capital city, Beirut. [15]
By 1975, Lebanon was a religiously and ethnically diverse country with most dominant groups of Maronite Christians, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims; with significant minorities of Druze, Kurds, Armenians, and Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
Film One Productions Film One Le Monde Entertainment: 1994: Hostage of Time: Jean K. Chamoun: Documentary: 1994: 50mins Proximities Afif J. Arabi A J Arabi Experimental DXM 1994: Time Has Come: Arabic: "آن الأوان" French: Histoire d'un retour: Jean-Claude Codsi: Simon Abkarian, Darina Al Joundi, Nati Sourati: Jean-Claude Codsi, Talal ...
The film was shot mainly in Montreal, with fifteen days spent in Jordan. It premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals in September 2010, and was released in Quebec on 17 September 2010. It met with critical acclaim in Canada and abroad and won numerous awards. In 2011, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Insult, a film by the Lebanese-French director, Ziad Doueiri, about a lawsuit between a Palestinian-Lebanese refugee who fled after the Jordanian Civil War, and a Lebanese Christian who survived the Damour massacre, was nominated for the Oscars in 2018.
Andy Webb, writing in The Movie Scene noted the beauty of Beirut before Mid-East strife destroyed the once glamorous capital. Webb considered 24 Hours to Kill "quite entertaining and has a touch of 60s spy movie about it with a few moments of action, drinks laced with drugs, shady people following Norman around and of course some danger." [7]
A Story of Water (French: Une histoire d'eau) is a short film directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut and released in 1961. It recounts the story of a woman's trip to Paris, which is surrounded by a large flooded area. It was first shown publicly in 1961.
The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere. [4] It was selected as the Lebanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. [5] [6] It won the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Young Cinema sidebar {Prix Cannes Ecrans ...