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Co-presented by the Arab American National Museum


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Portraying a heart-wrenching duality between life in Beirut and in New York, WE NEVER LEFT is a tortured love story of a displaced people – an impassioned testament to Lebanese expats’ unrequited yet irrepressible love for their homeland after the start of the Lebanese revolution.


About the Filmmaker:

Loulwa Khoury is a New York based film editor, filmmaker born and raised in Beirut. She edited award-winning features documentaries PARADISE WITHOUT PEOPLE (2019), DUSTY AND STONES (2022). She has also been directing her first feature documentary, WE NEVER LEFT. Her other work includes award-winning documentaries CITY OF GHOSTS (2017), IT WILL BE CHAOS (2018), SOME KIND OF HEAVEN (2020) and ACT OF WORSHIP (2022). She was also one of the mentees of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship Diversity Program of the year 2019-2020 and a fellow in the Sundance Co//ab Art of Editing Fellowship 2020, and is currently in the DOC NYC x VC Storytelling Incubator cohort as well as a winner of the Creative Power Award.

  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    83 minutes
  • Language
    English, Arabic
  • Country
    Lebanon, United States
  • Premiere
    West Coast Premiere
  • Genre
    Documentary
  • Subtitle Language
    English, Arabic
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Loulwa Khoury
  • Producer
    Loulwa Khoury, Loulwa Khoury
  • Editor
    Loulwa Khoury, Marie-Louise Elia