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Georges Schoucair
Georges Schoucair is a prominent Lebanese film producer. Considered as one of the most promising film producers in the Middle-East cinema, Schoucair has produced several critically acclaimed and award-winning independent movies. He has actively contributed to the development of cinema in Lebanon as well as African cinema. He is the founder and CEO of his own production house, 'Abbout Productions' founded in 2003. However, the company was originally established in 1998 by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. Apart from that, he is also the founder of Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival in Beirut, regarded as the first genre movie film fest in the Arab world. Career As a producer, he worked with award-winning directors including: Kaouther Ben Hania, Vatche Boulghourjian, Jean Luc Godard, Alain Gomis, Joana Hadjithomas, Annemarie Jacir, Khalil Joreige, Mohammad Malas, Lucrecia Martel, Shirin Neshat, Asli Ozge, Rafi Pitts, Bill Plympton, Ghassan Salhab, Elia Suleiman and Apichatpong W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus lies to its west across the Mediterranean Sea; its location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has contributed to its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious diversity. It is part of the Levant region of the Middle East. Lebanon is home to roughly six million people and covers an area of , making it the second smallest country in continental Asia. The official language of the state is Arabic, while French is also formally recognized; the Lebanese dialect of Arabic is used alongside Modern Standard Arabic throughout the country. The earliest evidence of civilization in Lebanon dates back over 7000 years, predating recorded history. Modern-day Lebanon was home to the Phoenicians, a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanese People
The Lebanese people ( ar, الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC: ', ) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon. The term may also include those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state. The major religious groups among the Lebanese people within Lebanon are Shia Muslims (27%), Sunni Muslims (27%), Maronite Christians (21%), Greek Orthodox Christians (8%), Melkite Christians (5%), Druze (5.2%), Protestant Christians (1%). The largest contingent of Lebanese, however, comprise a diaspora in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Africa, which is predominantly Maronite Christian. As the relative proportion of the various sects is politically sensitive, Lebanon has not collected official census data on ethnic background since 1932 under the French Mandate. It is therefore difficult to have an exact demographic analysis of Lebanese society. The largest concentration of people of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joana Hadjithomas
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are Lebanese filmmakers and artists. Their work includes feature and documentary films, video and photographic installations, sculpture, performance lectures and texts. Personal life Joana Hadjithomas (born 10 August 1969, , gr, Ιωάννα Χατζηθωμά) and Khalil Joreige () were born in Beirut in 1969, and spent their childhood there during the Lebanese Civil War. They both studied literature at the Paris Nanterre University and film in New York. They are married. They have collaborated since the early 1990s on videos, films, photographs, and installations. They are known for their long-term research based on personal or political documents and their particular interest in the traces of the invisible and the absent, a forgotten space project from the 1960s, the strange consequences of Internet scams or the geological and archaeological undergrounds of cities. They occasionally use explicit life events as subjects for their work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalil Joreige
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are Lebanese filmmakers and artists. Their work includes feature and documentary films, video and photographic installations, sculpture, performance lectures and texts. Personal life Joana Hadjithomas (born 10 August 1969, , gr, Ιωάννα Χατζηθωμά) and Khalil Joreige () were born in Beirut in 1969, and spent their childhood there during the Lebanese Civil War. They both studied literature at the Paris Nanterre University and film in New York. They are married. They have collaborated since the early 1990s on videos, films, photographs, and installations. They are known for their long-term research based on personal or political documents and their particular interest in the traces of the invisible and the absent, a forgotten space project from the 1960s, the strange consequences of Internet scams or the geological and archaeological undergrounds of cities. They occasionally use explicit life events as subjects for their work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stray Bullet (2010 Film)
''Stray Bullet'' ( ar, رصاصة طايشة; translit. Rsasa Taysheh), the first long feature film by Lebanese director Georges Hachem, is a 2010 Lebanese film, starring Lebanese actress Nadine Labaki. Plot It's the end of summer in 1976, in a northern suburb of Beirut, and the war seems to be over. A priest announces the upcoming marriage of Jean Freiha and Noha Elias, who is 30 years old. After mass, she is congratulated by Olga, the aunt of her ex-boyfriend, Joseph Maroun, from three years earlier. Olga is also upset that Noha hadn't invited her to her wedding. Noha confides to her friend Wadad that she had secretly called Joseph and arranged a meeting with him. Joseph's mother had stalled any plans between the two as Noha is older than Joseph. His mother, unaware of Noha and Joseph's arrangement, tells him to visit his sister, who has recently had a miscarriage. Noha is at her dress fitting. Her dress was purchased by her older sister, Layla, for her own wedding. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladder To Damascus
''Ladder to Damascus'' ( ar, سلم إلى دمشق) is a 2013 Syrian drama film directed by Mohammad Malas Mohammad Malas ( ar, محمد ملص; born 1945) is a prominent Syrian filmmaker. Malas directed several documentary and feature films that garnered international recognition. He is among the first auteur filmmakers in Syrian cinema.Ginsberg; Li .... It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Cast *Najla el Wa'za *Lara Saade *Bilal Martini *Gianna Aanid *Mohamad Zarzour References External links * 2013 films 2013 drama films Syrian drama films 2010s Arabic-language films Films directed by Mohammad Malas {{2010s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tramontane (film)
''Tramontane'' ( ar, ربيع, Rabīʿ, spring (season)) is a 2021 Lebanese drama film directed by Vatche Boulghourjian. It premiered in the Critics' Week section of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival where it was awarded the Grand Rail d'Or Audience Award. Plot A young man who is visually impaired has decided to discover where he was born and his origin. He travels across Lebanon, where he gathers some minor clues of his actual identity. Cast * Barakat Jabbour as Rabih * Julia Kassar as Samar * Toufic Barakat as Hisham * Michel Adabachi as Wissam * Abido Bacha as Mounir * Odette Makhlouf as Hana * Georges Diab as Nabil Reception On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang ..., the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 7 reviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revengeance (film)
Revengeance is an American adult animated action black comedy film directed by Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan. Lujan also wrote, composed, and voiced several characters in the film. Plympton single-handedly animated the entire film by pencil on paper, which was digitally reworked and colored by his staff. Plot A low-rent bounty hunter named Rod Rosse, The One Man Posse, gets entangled in a web of danger when he takes on a job from an ex-biker/ex-wrestler turned U.S. senator named "Deathface". Cast *Jim Lujan as Rod Rosse/ Deathface/ Mom/ Ms. Candy/ The Master/ Gary the Clerk/ Connie Sanchez/ Sandman/ Luis Escobar *Sara Ulloa - Lana * Keith Knight as Pawnshop Slim * Ken Mora as Cujo *Robert Lujan as Bartender Cha Cha Boom *Charley Rossman as Biker Meeting Leader *Lalo Alcaraz as Royce Vargas *Kaya Rogue as Odell Braxton *Geo Brawn as The Shademan *Jose Tanaka as himself *John Holderried as E-Money *Matthew Modine as Sid (uncredited) *Dave Foley as Ace of Spades (uncredited) *Ruby Modi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 (2019 Film)
''1982'' is a 2019 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Oualid Mouaness, and starring Nadine Labaki and Mohamad Dalli. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere. It was selected as the Lebanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. It won the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Young Cinema sidebar Plot Set against the beginning of the 1982 Lebanon War, the film stars Nadine Labaki as Yesmine, a schoolteacher in Beirut, and Mohamad Dalli as Wissam, a young boy in her class who is trying to find the courage to tell his classmate Joanna (Gia Madi) that he has a crush on her.Linda Barnard"Oualid Mouaness tells the story of a boyhood crush and a nation at war in '1982'" '' The National'', September 10, 2019. Production ''1982'' was produced by companies based in Lebanon, Norway, France and Qatar. North American digital, ancilla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Brava, Lebanon
''Costa Brava, Lebanon'' () is a 2021 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Mounia Akl from a screenplay by Akl and Clara Roquet. It stars Nadine Labaki, Saleh Bakri, Nadia Charbel, Ceana Restom, Geana Restom, Liliane Chacar Khoury, Yumna Marwan and Francois Nour. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2021. It was selected as the Lebanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. This film also nominated for New Talent Award at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2021. Plot In a near future, Soraya and Walid build an idyllic life in the mountains, far from the disorder and pollution of Beirut, capital of Lebanon. There, they live with one of their parents and their two children — until installation of a supposedly ecological landfill disrupts their harmony. Cast * Nadine Labaki as Soraya * Saleh Bakri as Walid * Nadia Charbel as Tala * Ceana Restom as Rim * Geana Restom as Rim * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Lebanon
The cinema of Lebanon, according to film critic and historian Roy Armes, is the only other cinema in the Arabic-speaking region, beside Egypt's, that could amount to a national cinema.Armes, Roy. ''Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: a Dictionary'', page 26 Cinema in Lebanon has been in existence since the 1920s, and the country has produced more than 500 films. While there has been steady increase in film production since the end of the Lebanese Civil War, the number of films produced each year remains relatively small in comparison to what it used to be in the 1960s, and the industry remains heavily dependent on foreign funding, mainly European. The industry also remains reliant on international box office revenues due to the limited size of the domestic market. Despite that, local films have enjoyed a degree of local and international success. Ziad Doueiry's ''The Insult'' was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nadine Labaki's three features hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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