Un-Broken: Memory and Identity in Lebanese Cinema

Aug 17–21, 2021
LAUNYAC

Un-Broken: Memory and Identity in Lebanese Cinema is organized by the SR Socially Relevant Film Festival  (SRFF) together with festival partner LAU, The Lebanese American University in New York.

FILMS screening in person on August 17 at the Lincoln Center are

The Insult | Ziad Doueiri | Lebanon, France, Belgium, USA  | 2017| 103’ at 6:00 PM (Courtesy of The Cohen Media Group).

1982 | Oualid Mouaness | Lebanon, Norway, France, Qatar | 2019 | 100’ at 8:00 PM  Q&A with the director. 

There will be a panel discussion on Thursday, August 19 hosted by LAU broadcast live, regular “Meet the Filmmakers” sessions, in addition to the online slate which includes award-winning narrative features by Maroun Baghdadi, Vatche Boulghourjian, Jocelyne Saab, Philippe Aractingi.

Documentaries by Carol Mansour, Soraya Umewaka, Sarah Kaskas, Paul Cochrane and Karim Eid-Sabbagh, Carmen Labaki as well as shorts by Zayn Alexander, Sabina Botros, Karim Kassem, and Ghada Youssef.

The series is presented in collaboration with the Cohen Media Group, The Hagop Kevorkian Center at NYU, Nadi Lekol el Nas, IndiePix, SparqFest.Live.  

For information and tickets visit www.ratedsrfilms.org