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Days after “Netflix” and “The Arab Fund for Culture and the Arts” (AFAC) announced the establishment of a fund dedicated to supporting the film and television industry in Lebanon, the US broadcast platform finally gave meet a new group of films under the title “Made in Lebanon”. Give “a look at the Lebanese struggle, its hopes and dreams” at a time when the country is going through a suffocating and sensitive political and economic crisis, as it expressed in a statement. The selection includes a variety of works, including tapes by the late Maroun Baghdadi, which are: “Out of Life” (1991), “Beirut Oh Beirut” (1975), “Little Wars” (1982) and “Whispers” (or ” Nostalgia for the land of war “‘- 1980) and’ We are all for the homeland ‘(1974). “It is the first time that these restored films have been shown globally on a streaming platform, 30 years after their world premiere on VHS,” Netflix said in a statement. In this context, Noha El-Tayeb, director of Netflix’s Middle East, North Africa and Turkey Acquisitions Department, said that the new catalog represents “stories of filmmakers from different walks of life and covers part of everything that represents Lebanon: love, humor and beauty. ” Stressing that “sheds light on the richness of the Lebanese cultural heritage and on the creativity of Lebanese talents.” Among the selected films we can mention: “Bosta” (2005), “Listen” (2017), “Under the Bombardment” (2007), “Legacy” (2013) by Philip Aractingi, “Eid Lunch” (2017) by Lucien Bou Rajili, “Sugar Banat” (2007), “Waala Lewin” (2011), “Capernaum” (2018) by Nadine Labaki, “West Beirut” (1998) by Ziad Doueiri, “A Plane of Paper” (2003) by Randa al-Shahhal, “Panoptic” (2017) For Rana Eid and others.
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