Once Upon a Time in Beirut

1995

104 min

6.0

Ends at

Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked.

Budget

$0

Genre

Drama

Director

Jocelyne Saab

Country

Argentina

Cast & Crew

Michèle Tyan

Myrna Maakaron

Khaled El Sayed

Emile Accar

Ziad Makhoul

Pascal Faugeras

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Once Upon a Time in Beirut

Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked.

  • Michèle Tyan

  • Myrna Maakaron

  • Khaled El Sayed

  • Emile Accar

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