Ziad doueiri biography definition
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Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, who made the powerful film The Attack, which not many people beyond the festival circuit saw, continues to impress with The Insult, a large-scale drama that should appeal to bigger audiences. The new film, which is well shot and well acted, is about a seemingly trivial street incident – a slur – between two working class men, which first escalates into a vocal verbal dispute, then into a physical brawl, and finally into an emotionally and politically charged courtroom drama about broader moral and ethical issues.
Indeed, what begins as a minor personal dispute quickly turns into a major political saga due to the identities of the two men involved and the broader setting, Beirut as a painfully divided city – the most multicultural, multireligious, multi-political place in the entire Middle East. A highlight of the competition of the Venice Film Festival, The Insult also played at the Toronto Festival, and, it’s a pleasure to announce that the film will be distributed theatrically in the U.S. by the Coen Media Group.
The hero is a car mechanic, Toni (Adel Karam), who lives in a modest building with his pregnant wife (Rita Hayek). When a construction worker, Yasser (Kamel El Basha), comes to do some work on his ter
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Jul 10,
Written by Reem Saleh, Spanking Media, DFI
Film: West Beyrouth
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Director: Ziad Doueiri
Stars: Rami Doueiri, Mohamad Chamas, Rola Familiar Amin
Genre: Art Backtoback and Intercontinental, Drama
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Tarantino Cameraman-Turned-Director Doueiri Talks Torn East/West Identity, Why &#;The Attack&#; Is Banned in Lebanon
Lebanese-American writer-director Ziad Doueiri captures, in his Tel Aviv-set terrorist drama &#;The Attack,&#; what it means to be the man in the middle. The film is opening June 21 stateside after playing the festival circuit. But it is banned in Lebanon, because Doueiri shot the film in Tel Aviv, breaking the Lebanese law forbidding a citizen to go to Israel. UPDATE: In fact, Doueiri told NPR, the Arab League has banned the film in all 22 Arab States. It will show July 5 in Israel.
Based on Yasmina Khadra&#;s novel, this riveting story is about a Palestinian surgeon (Ali Suliman) working and &#;he thinks&#;accepted as a high-end professional in Tel Aviv. He comes home to his family every night and adores his doting wife (Reymonde Amsellem). When she dies in a suicide bombing, the grieving husband is utterly baffled and unable to understand how or why she &#;of all people&#;could have been secretly plotting this self-destructive and violent terrorist act. He initially denies it. But during the course of the film he tracks down the truth of her anger and zeal.
Doueiri previously directed the coming-of-age drama &#;Lila Says&#; () and in the s, was a cam