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Title In the shadows of the city / directed by Jean Chamoun
Published Honolulu, HI : Asia Pacific Films, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (103 min.))
Series Asian film online
Summary Twelve-year-old Rami moves from South Lebanon to Beirut with his family, to escape the Israeli bombings. In the city, he becomes fast friends with a few local children, including his neighbor, Yasmine, whom he falls in love with. However, the horrors of war catches up with him, when the civil war erupts. His friend is murdered in cold-blood, he gets separated from Yasmine, when her family moves away to escape the war and his father gets kidnapped by the militia. Despite his opposition to violence and warfare, Rami finds himself signing up to be a militia fighter for a different faction, in a bid to find his father. He meets Siham, a young mother whose husband had been kidnapped. In spite of the obstacles in her way, she is determined to find her husband. When his fellow militia fighters capture a prisoner and decide to kill him, Rami has to make a choice between his humanity and his allegiance to his faction, in a war that has pitted him against his own friend
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Aug. 6, 2013)
Awards/Festivals: Prix Special de Jury, Cannes Junior International Film Festival; Best Film, Al Andalos Satellite, Mediterranean Film Festival; Special Distinction Award, Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia; Best Lebanese Feature Film, Beirut Media Festival, 2004
This edition in Arabic with English subtitles
Won, 2004, Beirut Media Festival, Best Lebanese Feature Film
Won, Cannes Junior International Film Festival, Prix Special de Jury
Won, Carthage Film Festival, Special Distinction Award
Won, Mediterranean Film Festival, Best Film, Al Andalos Satellite
Subject Families -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- Drama
War victims -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- Drama
Refugee children -- Lebanon -- Drama
Palestinian Arabs -- Lebanon -- Beirut
Families.
Palestinian Arabs.
Refugee children.
War victims.
SUBJECT Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Drama
Beirut (Lebanon) -- History -- Drama
Subject Lebanon.
Lebanon -- Beirut.
Genre/Form Drama.
Feature films.
History.
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Chamoun, Jean Khalil, film director, film producer.
Chalak, Ammar, actor.
Choueiri, Christine, actor.
Machmouchi, Majdi, actor.
Other Titles Original title: Taif al madina