Mariam undergoes a journey to find strength within herself through her culture and heritage, after the loss of her precious paradise. About the filmmaker: <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/fe5a029aa17797bfacedabcd57c17ad1.png" width="144" style="max-width: 100%; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px;">Dana Durr, aged 26, born in Nazareth. Her work branches out in worlds of film, animation and music. With a Film Studies background, Dana continued to Animation studies seeking to pass on moments of beauty, presence and life, Dana digs deep in her Palestinian heritage and aims to portray that way of life through poetic visual storytelling.

Mariam

Mariam undergoes a journey to find strength within herself through her culture and heritage, after the loss of her precious paradise.

Souha Béchara is a young southern Lebanese girl who, like thousands of other girls, found herself at an early age in the midst of a civil war. In 1988, after a long preparation, Souha attempted to assassinate General Antoine Lahad, leader of the South Lebanse Army, the pro-Istraeli Christian militia. Although badly wounded, he survived, and Souha was imprisoned for ten years in the Khiam prison, the infamous dungeon whose very existence was denied by the Israelis and their Lebanese collaborators. Locked up in a tiny cell in total isolation and repeatedly tortured, her refusal to collaborate soon became a legend. Thanks to an international campaign, Souha was finally freed in 1998 This film follows Souha's return to her village, Deir Mimas, to the Khiam jail, in the very place where she tried to assassinate General Lahd. For Souha, surviving hell is a joyful, thoughtful, and liberating travel diary. The diary of a trip that, for a moment, let one believe in the possible reconciliation of our country. About the filmmaker: <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/c7d45dd3883ced74fbd3c4b6768356a2.jpg" width="233" style="max-width: 100%; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px;">Randa Chahal was a film director and screenwriter born in Lebanon who lived in Paris, France. After the war erupted in 1975, the young Randa Chahal returned to Lebanon on several occasions, after studying at the prestigious Louis Lumière school in Paris. Camera in hand, she tirelessly documented the war and the deserted streets of Beirut combining fearless engagement with political criticism.&nbsp; Step by Step describes the ramifications of the civil war in Lebanon and Our Reckless Wars is a crude story about the involvement of her family during the civil war, a work that Jean Luc Godard cites in his Histoire(s) du Cinéma. As with other filmmakers of her generation, the civil war imposed the documentary format on Randa Chahal Sabbag. However, she was also a film aficionado and an outstanding storyteller nonetheless, as is evident in her works of fiction. Dealing with the absurdity of a civil war as well as unique stories of characters that are profoundly human, her fiction films are tinted with fierce humor and an incredible sense of freedom.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/95c387958fcd4d1fac7388a78445522d.jpg" width="222" style="max-width: 100%; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;"> In 1992, she directed her first feature Sand Screens, followed by the stinging Civilized People in 2000 and The Kite in 2003, that won her the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Lion) at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival and the medallion for Officer of the National Order of the Cedar. Randa Chahal Sabbag will continue to work and film between Beirut and Paris, writing and developing many scripts and projects. These films where nothing but the beginning of the work of a filmmaker that left us too soon. In 2008, Olivia Snaije writes in the British newspaper The Guardian in homage to the recent passing of the filmmaker: “Chahal’s premature death leaves a void in the Middle Eastern world of film, where freedom of expression requires boundless courage and tenacity.”

Souha, Surviving Hell

Souha's return to her village, Deir Mimas, to the Khiam jail, in the very place where she tried to assassinate General Lahd

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