Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless Nights)

Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless nights)
Documentary, HD, 2h08', 2012
 
Director, researcher and executive producer: Eliane Raheb
Producer, scriptwriter and editor : Nizar Hassan
Director of photography: Meyar Al Roumi and Jocelyne Abi Gebrayel
Synopsis:
Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a major Christian militia, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982 in the battle of the Science campus-Lebanese university, the film digs in the war wounds and asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrPcuuFCBg
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/520928617987656/?ref=ts&fref=ts
Festivals:
Premiered in the 60th edition of the San Sebastian film festival, New directors competition
Dubai International film festival, Muhr Documentary competition
Best Documentary Award in the Birds Eye View festival, London
Critics’ choice for best film at the Ismailia film festival, Egypt
 
“It's hard to find a Lebanese documentary that doesn't touch on the country's bloody civil war, yet it'll be even harder to find one better than "Sleepless Nights." Helmer Eliane Raheb's emotionally trenchant pic slices through fuzzy notions of forgiveness and reconciliation, exposing the concept of clemency without justice as a mask that protects the perpetrators and leaves survivors with festering wounds.”
Jay Weissberg Variety
 

Add to my Calendar Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless Nights) Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless nights) Documentary, HD, 2h08', 2012   Director, researcher and executive producer: Eliane Raheb Producer, scriptwriter and editor : Nizar Hassan Director of photography: Meyar Al Roumi and Jocelyne Abi Gebrayel Synopsis: Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a major Christian militia, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982 in the battle of the Science campus-Lebanese university, the film digs in the war wounds and asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrPcuuFCBg Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/520928617987656/?ref=ts&fref=ts Festivals: Premiered in the 60th edition of the San Sebastian film festival, New directors competition Dubai International film festival, Muhr Documentary competition Best Documentary Award in the Birds Eye View festival, London Critics’ choice for best film at the Ismailia film festival, Egypt   “It's hard to find a Lebanese documentary that doesn't touch on the country's bloody civil war, yet it'll be even harder to find one better than "Sleepless Nights." Helmer Eliane Raheb's emotionally trenchant pic slices through fuzzy notions of forgiveness and reconciliation, exposing the concept of clemency without justice as a mask that protects the perpetrators and leaves survivors with festering wounds.” Jay Weissberg Variety   Organizer 2013-10-10 03:00:00 2013-10-10 03:00:00 [email protected] Asia/Beirut public
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Start/End Date and Time
خميس, 10/10/2013 - 3:00am
Countries:
Lebanon
Event Location:
Metropolis Cinema; Vox City Centre; Prime On Bliss
Lebanon
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Event Type:
نشاط ثقافي
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