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Madonna…..She was here!!!

May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

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Les femmes du Sud a Cannes!

May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

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Les femmes du Sud se dévoilent

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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Their voices are strong, even if some times they have to cry louder to be heard in a male-dominated field. After all, it’s their passion for making movies that motivates the three women filmmakers. Tunisian Moufida Tlatli, Lebanese Nadin Labaki and Ingrid Sinclair from Zimbabwe [...]

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Premier regard sur Cannes !

May 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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Lebanon’s Fadlallah calls for dialogue with Fitna filmmaker

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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Lebanon’s high-ranking Shiite Muslim cleric Sheikh Mohammed Hussien Fadlallah called Thursday for dialogue with Dutch politician Geert Wilders regarding his anti-Islam film “Fitna.””We are ready to enter into dialogue with the Dutch politicians, especially with Geert Wilders, to explain to them the understandings [...]

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« Mots d’après la guerre »

April 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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Un talentueux musicien Tunisien de la musique arabe et de jazz a choisi de passer derrière la caméra …Un luthiste de base, ANOUAR BRAHEM porte le chapeau d’un scénariste-réalisateur d’un film documentaire sur la guerre de Liban en 2006.
Au cœur d’un Liban qui brûle, il [...]

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Persépolis autorisé

March 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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Après une campagne médiatique marathon menée par la presse libanaise, nous allons donc pouvoir nous rendre au cinéma voir ce film, comme dans tous les pays civilisés de ce monde.
Une bonne nouvelle, c’est tellement rare.
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Persepolis, de Marjane Satrapi, interdit a Beyrouth…

March 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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Les foudres de la censure qui se sont abattues sur le film d’animation de Marjane Satrapi, Persépolis, ont suscité une vive polémique hier à Beyrouth.

Sollicité par L’Orient-Le Jour, le ministre de la Culture Tarek Mitri a affirmé sans ambages qu’il était « contre la censure [...]

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The Edge of Heaven

March 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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La semaine derniere j’ai vu un film qui m’a beaucoup impressionne. C’est le nouveau film par realisateur Turc-Allemand Fatih Akin, et c’est traduit en Anglais comme ‘The Edge of Heaven’. Les histoires personnelles qui se chevauchent sont en grand sens sous la theme de l’histoire [...]

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Noirs et Blanche

December 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments

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