Lightcube Film Society presents "West Beirut" film screening at Zizo K 18, 22 Connaught Circus, Opp PVR Plaza Cinema, Connaught Place > 7pm to 8:48pm on 1st December 2014

Time : 7:00 pm - 8:48 pm Add to Calendar 01-12-2014 19:00:00 01-12-2014 20:48:00 68 Lightcube Film Society presents "West Beirut" film screening Event Page : http://goo.gl/WJc9xD Zizo K 18, 22 Connaught Circus, Opp PVR Plaza Cinema, Connaught Place, New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free, But registrations required, Register at:
Contact : 070425 5444 | 7838340196
zizo.in | lightcube.in | suraj.prasad@lightcube.in

Venue : Zizo K 18, 22 Connaught Circus, Opp PVR Plaza Cinema, Connaught Place, New Delhi - 110001

Venue Info : zizo.in | Map | Rajiv Chowk Metro Station (Yellow Line and Blue Line)

Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : Lightcube Film Society presents "West Beirut" film screening.

While the French missionaries want to teach them French and the religious fundamentalists want them to open the Koran, Tarek and Omar, instead pick up the camera—the super light Super 8 film camera that made home videos possible—and go about filming their people, their lives, their culture; and find a friend in May: a Christian refugee girl that has come to stay in West Beirut. There is only one problem: they live in West Beirut and the film would be developed in East Beirut, but it 1975, the year of the civil war that has divided the land into East Beirut and West Beirut, into Christians and Muslims. As the three cycle into the ‘other’s’ territory under the gaze of armed terrorists on terraces will they ever be able to come out? Not before they encounter a myth in real.

Language : Lebanese with English Subtitles 

Duration : 108 min.

Year : 1998

Director : Ziad Doueiri

Cast : Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli, Mohamad Chamas etc.

Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/west_beyrouth

Background : Zizo and Lightcube Film Society are collaborating to institute a unique weekly film club that will provide its patrons, visitors and members with an opportunity to engage with the intricate realities and complex emotional, political and social diagrams of the Lebanese cinema. The cinema from this region is rarely, if ever, witnessed in our part of 
the world, and we are very interested in being able to showcase it; not merely to exhibit 
it as an isolated, national cinema, but also to build a context around it and place it in the larger narrative of world cinema in general. Therefore, we intend to prepare a programme with Lebanese films that alternate with their echoes and counterparts from around the world - to establish, at the same time, the distinctiveness and the sameness of the cinema from Lebanon. The first month of screenings will accordingly feature a few seminal films from Lebanon – these titles will provide the viewer with an insightful overview of the essential themes that permeate through Lebanese cinema: exile, sectarianism, inequality, westernisation, memory, a lost youth and a strong curiosity for one’s own past.

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