São Paulo – The Institute of Arab Culture (ICArabe) and Clube Monte Líbano are holding the 1st Lebanese Film Festival until October 22 in São Paulo, with screenings on Saturdays. The opening was on the October 2 with the drama film Memory Box (2021, 102 min). The program is free and open to the public. (Pictured above, a still of Costa Brava, Lebanon).
Next Saturday (8) fiction film Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021, 106 min) by filmmaker Mounia Akl will be screened. On the 15th documentary film Heritages (2013, 96 min) by Philippe Aractingi will be featured, and on the 22nd the festival ends with the film 1982 (2019, 100 min) by Oualid Mouaness. All films will be screened at 8 pm (BRT), featuring subtitles in Portuguese, at Clube Monte Líbano.
Costa Brava, Lebanon
A couple decides to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.
Heritages
When director Philippe Aractingi is forced to leave his motherland for the third time, the realization dawns on him: his ancestors have been fleeing wars for five generations. Exploring his roots, Aractingi goes back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel and the Lebanese Civil War. Experimenting with a radical new film-making style, he interlaces directed scenes and archive images with video-filmed personal diaries, family photos and super 8 reels.
1982
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her while their teachers try to hide their fear of the conflict.
Quick facts
Lebanese Film Festival
Until October 22
Free
Clube Monte Líbano
Av. República do Líbano, 2267 – Ibirapuera
São Paulo, Brazil
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
