This event is in the past.It took place on June 4, 2026 at Film Forum.
Drama Film
Drama Film🎬"weaves exile, destruction, memory, hope, and illusions into a poem" (Variety)
🍿Made with real peanut oil
📽️In Arabic with English subtitles
A man returns to Beirut with a new identity a decade after faking his death, forcing confrontations with the friends he abandoned and the silences of a city still healing from war. Ghassan Salhab's 1998 debut weaves exile, memory, and collective trauma into an intimate portrait of a scarred community.
Lebanese cinema
war and memory
identity and exile
subtitled film
Drama FilmDrama Film🎬"weaves exile, destruction, memory, hope, and illusions into a poem" (Variety)
🍿Made with real peanut oil
📽️In Arabic with English subtitles
A man returns to Beirut with a new identity a decade after faking his death, forcing confrontations with the friends he abandoned and the silences of a city still healing from war. Ghassan Salhab's 1998 debut weaves exile, memory, and collective trauma into an intimate portrait of a scarred community.
Lebanese cinema
war and memory
identity and exile
subtitled film