Muhammad Suwaid, Mai Al-Masry and others.

Since the beginning of the home quarantine procedures, the Beirut DC Association has launched the “Our Movies” initiative in cooperation with Arab film institutions, to show a set of Lebanese and Arab films for free, which will be changed every period in the place. The recently added list includes 5 movies that can be seen on the platform right now. After showing “Al Fouad Cinema” (42D 1993) and “Tango Al Amal” (70D 1998), “Nassib” (14D 1997), by Muhammad Suwaid, the electronic platform continues to provide documentary works for one of the most Lebanese directors Featured in Post Civil War Period.

Under the title “Pioneers of Al-Muawad Al-Arabiya Cinema”, this time the platform was chosen for two other films (to be screened until May 13) for Sweden. The first is the documentary “I Love You, Monster” (90D-2009), which intersects with the problems Sweden has worked on in most of its films, especially in terms of searching for identities in the post-war period. The film features 6 personalities living in Lebanon, and shares the dream-seeking journeys in the midst of a miserable reality and full of regional conflicts. There is also the movie “I Chanted Others” (87-2008), which was photographed by Sweden between three cities: Beirut, Dubai and Hanoi. There are two approaches to resistance: the Palestinian resistance and the Vietnamese resistance, and it tracks their effects during the period between the 1960s and 1990s, and their transformations and methods.
Not far from the atmosphere of the Palestinian resistance, the initiative presents the film “3000 Nights” (103d – 2015), which is the first feature film by Palestinian director Mai Al-Masry, which I directed after a long experience in documentary film alone or accompanied by his late partner, Jean Chamoun. In the film, which runs until May 20, Al-Masry was inspired by true stories of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, including Therese Halaseh and Rawdat Al-Basir. It is a story that takes place in Palestine in the 1980s, and begins with the arrest of the teacher, Lail, accused of helping a Palestinian boy. The film was shot in a real prison, to convey the experience of stopping their bitterness from the point of view of women and children and the pressures to which they are exposed, while also showing the stage of Arab struggle during that period. , especially during the Israeli invasion of the Lebanese capital. Also on the “Our Movies” list, shows Corin Chawi’s documentary e muet (52D 2013), which explores relationships of love and pain, feelings of friendship and love. For years, the director has entered the world of her two friends, Nano, and asked about the transformations in their lives and her personal research that is identified by the director’s special questions. As for the movie “The fifth line”, it is a short film by the director, Vache Bulgurjian (29D 2010), in which he shows the “Diaries of despair and mourning” in the Burj Hammoud neighborhood, which means what It is known as the Armenian neighborhood in Beirut, through allegorical stories expressed by Herag and his father. Please note that both films are available on the site until May 20, before replacing them with new films.