''Leila and the Wolves'' (''ليلى والذئاب'') is a 1984 drama film from Lebanese director

Heiny Srour Heiny Srour (Arabic: هايني سرور, born March 23, 1945) is a Lebanese film director. She is best known for being the first female Arab filmmaker to have a film, ''Saat El Tahrir Dakkat'' or ''The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived'', chosen fo ...

and assistant director Sabah Jabbour. It was filmed in often treacherous areas and the filming lasted seven years. In the film, the protagonist Leila, a modern Lebanese woman living in London, time travels through the 1900s to the 1980s, with each trip focusing on the centrality of women in Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements. The film won the Grand Prize in the Third World competition at the

International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg The Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (german: Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg), often referred to by the German-language initialism IFFMH, is an annual film festival established in 1952 hosted jointly by the citi ...

References

1984 films Lebanese drama films

External links

* {{Lebanon-film-stub