Doukhan Bila Nar • FILMFEST HAMBURG

Beirut, Open City

OT: Doukhan Bila Nar

Samir Habchi // Lebanon, 2008
Fiction Feature // FF2009

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Story

Beirut in the 1990s, under Syrian occupation. An Egyptian documentary filmmaker wants to make a film about secret service interrogations of dissidents and gets caught in a net of intrigues and corruption. Meanwhile a young, married Lebanese is shot by a US embassy security guard. These two subplots move towards each other inexorably in this dark thriller. Unfortunately the print didn’t arrive. The screening has to be canceled. We are sorry.

Director

Samir Habchi, born in 1961, director and writer. His other films beside"Beirut, Open City" are "The Tornado" (1992) and "Lady of the Palace".

Info

Doukhan Bila Nar

Fiction Feature

Arabic

Agenda 09//FF2009


Lebanon

2008

96 min

OV

Samir Habchi

Samir Habchi

Khaled Al Nabawi, Rodney Al Haddad, Diamand Bou Abboud, Cyrine Abdelnour

Gabriel Khoury

Milad Tauk

Tony Partamian

Jamal Abou El Hosn

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