Cinema Lebanon: Benefit Screening In De Balie Sep 9

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9 September | 18.00 h, 20.00 h, 22.00 h
Cinema Libanon: Charity Screening
Entrance: euro 10,- | combination ticket euro 25,-
Location: De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam
URL: www. balie.nl

With introductions by Pierre Sarraf (director Ne a Beyrouth)
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Lebanon, and more specifically Beirut, still conjure two very
dichotomous and cliche images in the West: either the lamented former
glory of the pearl of the Middle East, or the atrocities of a 15-year
protracted civil war. With the media saturation of the recent war
between Israel and Hizbullah still fresh, and the shaky promise of a
brittle ceasefire, Lebanon once again risks to fall prey to
stereotyping. In defiance of the war and in solidarity with the
humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, De Balie organises an evening of films,
documentaries and videos by Lebanese makers, in collaboration with the
Lebanese production house and film festival Ne a Beyrouth.
The selection of films are testimony to the resistance of Lebanese
artists to a historical and cultural amnesia, and show that being
rooted in contemporary Lebanon is as much a commemoration of an untold
past, as it is a reflection on and of the present.

With thanks to: Pierre Sarraf (Ne a Beyrouth), Joanna Hadjithomas &
Khalil Joreige, Celluloid Dreams, Akram Zaatari, and other
participating artists.
Ticket sale donated to humantiarian relief causes in Lebanon.